#envied

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. ↗

— Mark Twain

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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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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

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