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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.
It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.
You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.
I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'
I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.
It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.
I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.
Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.
A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
I need a strong woman who can handle the attention I get and not get upset if I cuddle a stranger for a social photo.
If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.
I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?
I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.
Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.
Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?
I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.
If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.
Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
After being married, hearing 'You're hot!' from a total stranger means a hundred times more than hearing it from your husband.
I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.