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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Oprah Winfrey

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

G. K. Chesterton

The irony upon irony of this lawsuit was great. First, Fox having the trademark 'fair and balanced' - a network which is anything but fair and balanced. Then there's the irony of a news organization trying to suppress free speech.

Al Franken

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

The president cannot suppress 'people power' with a superfluous and illegal edict.

Marlon Manuel

Cough syrups may suppress a cough a little bit. But they don't treat the underlying cause. They won't make you better any faster.

Dr. Michael Alberts

I personally believe that the police routinely violate an individual's rights and as defense attorneys we're always fighting an uphill battle. In my opinion, it is extremely admirable for a judge to have the courage to suppress evidence in a serious case like this.

Kevin Mahoney

Putting out fires is like repeatedly applying Band-Aids. Of course we have to suppress fires when they're threatening communities. But it's a Catch-22 -- we are in a self-perpetuating cycle.

Laura Mccarthy

If you suppress free radicals, you suppress programmed cell death.

Rudolph Salganik

Once the prime habitats and sub-prime habitats are filled up, the eagle population tends to suppress itself. There's always going to be a balancing act.

Jody Millar

Plunging business confidence and easing consumption should suppress import growth. Should the economic slowdown be more pronounced than expected, the trade deficit may have benefited.

Tim Bowring

Because of the overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate fraud, and an attempt to suppress voter turnout by unlawful means. I felt the necessity, as do my colleagues from the Congressional Black Caucus and other members of the House of Representatives, to object to the kinds of errors against democracy ... that were permitted in the state of Florida.

Alcee Hastings

I'm not accusing Warner Bros. of suppressing Toby in any way, shape, or form, ... It's not some suit at Warner Bros. that goes, 'That Toby, we've got to suppress him.' I know it sounded like that, but it's not what I mean, and that's stupid.

Richard Schiff

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

Arianna Stassinopoulos

Because of the wide coalition of forces supporting the judges, it will only become more difficult for the government to suppress their activism. But whether or not the government will compromise on a draft judiciary law will be seen in the next few days.

Hossam Bahgat

He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Tryon Edwards

In general, three miles of marsh will suppress one foot of surge. When Katrina hit, we lost 100 square miles of marsh.

Mark Ford

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

Ichiro Suzuki

I don't believe there has been fraud. It's frustrating to me as a voter. This entire process is about trying to suppress votes.

Amy Weinsheim

The only sure remedy for air traffic control congestion in the near term would be a recession that would suppress demand. Who among us wants to advocate that to the American people?

Norman Mineta

These attempts by the Russian state and religious leaders to suppress the right to protest are a throwback to the bad old days of czarist and communist totalitarianism. No amount of threats and intimidation by the mayor of Moscow, the Chief Mufti or the Chief Rabbi will halt the gay freedom struggle in Russia.

Peter Tatchell

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work.

J.m. Synge

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Leslie Stephen

Mr. Spector denies he shot anyone at his house and denies he said he shot anyone. We have made motions to suppress certain statements that were not admissions and were illegally obtained.

Bruce Cutler

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Georges Bizet

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Aleister Crowley

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

Learned Hand

Those who tried to suppress him have failed. They forgot there's a God above who's watching and only his will prevails.

Salim Khan

These groups hold national meetings that bring together drug advocates to talk directly to consumers. They also put out newsletters and other information that praise medications. Sometimes they actively suppress viewpoints that are critical of drugs - for example, by discouraging the media from airing opposing viewpoints.

Peter Breggin

That companies are making money and still can't pay a living wage seems obscene, ... (Corporations) will say they have to suppress wages to provide low-cost consumer products and services, but they don't tell you about the unbelievable profits they enjoy and the huge paychecks being reaped at the top.

Karen Nussbaum

By doing this, he (Blair) is setting an example to the tyrant rulers of the Muslim world, encouraging them to further suppress their populations.

Imran Waheed

To our surprise, we found that treatment with it suppresses food intake. It could have potential as an appetite-suppressing drug, by injection. Or it might be possible to deliver by nasal spray. It also allows us to screen for new drugs that might suppress appetite.

Aaron Hsueh

It's a community with big-city housing costs and small- town wages. Because it's a fairly trapped community, in terms of limited job opportunities, employers have been free to suppress wages.

Nora Hochman

We don't make history. We document it. It's not up to us to suppress it.

Anthony Bliss

I guess a lot of the questions in poetry can only be answered by poetry. That is they can only be answered by dramatizing and intensifying the contradictions which we suppress in everyday life in order to get on with it.

Robert Hass

The nature of judging is special from other decision making, ... They have to suppress their gut instincts and rule from precedents, the rule of law.

Joseph Hoffman

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sheikh Hasina

Giuliano is a fantastic violinist, and we looked for a program that would showcase him and his skills. He loves to stand up and perform to an audience, and it is hard to suppress him sometimes. He would be happy to play concertos all night, but I'm not sure that audiences could handle that.

Christopher Lawrence

In too many countries, leaders speak of democracy, yet rig elections, suppress dissent, and shackle the press.

Harold Koh