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It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus / Historian
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Envy
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
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Envy
Hatred
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If you are not envied, you are not enviable.
Aeschylus / Dramatist
Envied
Ifs
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
Pindar / Poet
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Fate
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Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Jealousy
Jealous
Envied
Envy
Your Jealous
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus / Historian
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Envy
How Much
Pitied
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
Horace / Poet
Love
Envied
Envy
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian / Writer
Jealousy
Applause
Envied
Envious
Envy
Winning
Die
Oft
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Irving Layton / Poet
Envied
Neighbor
Want
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I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.
Colson Whitehead / Novelist
Envied
Soccer
Gig
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Men like Sunil Dutt should not be mourned, only envied for their greatness.
Mahesh Bhatt / Film Director
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Greatness
Mourned
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I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.
Sarah Dessen / Writer
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Script
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I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)
Sherrilyn Kenyon / Writer
Envied
Hated
Wanted
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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
Sydney Pollack / Film Director
College
Envied
People
Always People Never
People Always Never
Regretted
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Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
Ali Babacan / Turkish Politician
Envied
Serious
Turkeys
World
World Economy
Troubles
Widely
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Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Biblical
Envied
Wealthy
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
Arthur Chapman / Poet
Body
Envied
Envy
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain / Author
Love
Men
All Things
Envied
Envy
Loved
Himself
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I've always envied girls having Ugg boots, so when I found some for men, I had to have them.
Marc Warren /
Boots
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Rowan Williams / Poet
Age
Culture
Envied
Sensitive
Spiritual
Admired
Spiritually
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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
Kenneth Williams / Comic
Coward
Emulate
Envied
Hypnosis
Records
Technique
Writing
Collected
Whose
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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson / Military Commander
Death
Character
Disgrace
Envied
Glorious
Horatio
My Own
Names
Life Good Character
Life Death Good
Dreadful
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The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib / Rashidun
Authority
Envied
Position
Holder
Lion
Rider
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I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.
Michael Bastian / Fashion Designer
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Tiny
Foot
Jefferson
Thomas
Walls
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You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.
Aram Saroyan /
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Isolated
Work Society Always
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I hated myself. I hated people who made war. I hated people who were normal. I envied them. I wish I would be normal.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc /
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
Erica Jong / Author
Cheerful
Envied
Terrified
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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Ernest Shackleton / Explorer
Envied
Hunger
Meals
Might
Months
Want
Appetites
Suddenly
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I didn't have stage parents and sometimes I've envied people who did because I felt like, I guess, I'm compulsively worried I'm not accomplishing enough.
Chris Thile / Mandolinist
Envied
Accomplishing
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I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
Elia Kazan / Producer
Columns
Demonstration
Envied
Gossip
Made
Successful
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I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.
Luke Wilson / Actor
Envied
Mean
Play
Real
Scripts
Bad Way
Page
Real People
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I feel so proud of being able to vote for the first time. I keep looking at the black mark on my finger proudly. For years I envied that tell-tale mark on my parents' finger.
Amrita Rao / Film Actress
Envied
Time Keep Black
Finger
Proudly
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I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'
Martin Freeman / Actor
Envied
Hey
God Always People
God People Always
Reputations
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I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
Franz Wright / Poet
Bothered
Crude
Envied
Everyday
Everyday Life
Mess
Paint
Life Music Always
Life Music People
Compose
Normally
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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
B. R. Hayden /
Alone
Attainment
Envied
Genius
Hopeless
Intellectual
Labor
Accompanies
Greatest
Gift
Though
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I've played in San Diego for nine years and gone against my new team a bunch of times, and I've always envied their success. I've always envied the way they play, the way they go about business.
Eric Weddle /
Bunch
Envied
Nine
San Diego
Success Business Always
Played
Diego
San
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When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.
Susan Minot / Novelist
Envied
Rebellion
Reserved
Teens
Twenties
Me Way See
Dressed
Expressing
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I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.
Paul Giamatti / Actor
Drawing
Envied
Drama School
Hugely
Old Men
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I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.
Catherine Hicks / Film Actress
Campus
Dames
Drama
Envied
Joy
Majors
Dame
Freer
Noticed
Seemed
Spirits
Studying
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I always envied them, the owners of the cars with the white plates who can be seen around Jerusalem. I always wanted to be one of them. We call them U.N., even though U.N. are generally foreign correspondents with leased cars and yellow plates.
Sayed Kashua / Author
Envied
Jerusalem
Owners
Plates
Yellow
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This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.
Osama Bin Laden /
Decades
Envied
Impressed
Military
Regimes
Resemblance
Royal
Staying
Supervision
Bush
Positions
Visits
Wound
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Do you want to be the girl that's envied, or do you want to be the girl that inspires you? Most people don't know that I am super shy and timid, but online people think I have a big personality. Make sure whatever you do has an overall message and has value.
Karen Civil /
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Shy
Inspires
Overall
Timid
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Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
Naomi Watts / Actress
Acquire
Ageing
Charisma
Embrace
Envied
Progression
Relaxed
Beauty Life Time
Confident
Trick
Inner
Natural Progression
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There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to admit. Each was the other's future. Radar served up the exclusives I always envied. Gawker was actually comfortable on the web, in the medium Radar should have made its own.
Nick Denton / Journalist
Envied
Radar
Rivalry
Admit
Medium
Served
Web
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In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.
Lapo Elkann / Entrepreneur
Envied
Succeed
Waste
Success Time World
Anyone Else
Apologize
End Of The Day
Italy
Worst Thing
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My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.
Elif Batuman / Author
Comparison
Corpses
Dissecting
Educated
Envied
High School
Medical School
Seventeen
Turkish
Grade
Seemed
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
Beck / Musician
Albums
Collaboration
Envied
Helping
Interaction
Change Music Myself
Bands
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As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness and beauty of being human, I wondered if J. M. Coetzee, with his bleak, pared-down, elemental view of the world, had ever read a Banville and, if he had, whether he had envied him his astonishing powers.
Justin Cartwright /
Astonishing
Being Human
Bleak
Delight
Envied
Richness
Strangeness
Convey
Elemental
Magical
Playful
Powers
Wondered
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard / Playwright
Artist
Autocracy
Dictatorship
Envied
Gratification
Intense
Jail
Oxygen
Pure
Writing
Authorities
Readers
Secretly
Slightly
Totalitarian
Whom
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