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The Great Gatsby
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Reveal Quotes

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

– Henry David Thoreau

I’m more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

– Idina Menzel

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

– Jim Wallis

I’ve learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

– Isabelle Adjani

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

– Imelda May

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

– Jesse Jackson

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

– Juliette Binoche

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

– Bruce Eric Kaplan

It’s how I express myself – through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

– Alexia Fast

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

– Anthony Hecht

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

– Carl Friedrich Gauss

When you interview celebrities, they’re so guarded so many times, they can’t reveal anything.

– Chelsea Handler

In a paper called ‘The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,’ I showed that there were not any mechanisms that would always both produce a stable matching and make it completely safe for all firms and workers to reveal their true preferences.

– Alvin E. Roth

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

– Arthur Erickson

There is no cure for prions. They are a protein-based disease that, among other things, targets and transforms your brain. The symptoms reveal themselves differently in each host, and you might go months or you might go years before you realize you’re infected.

– Benjamin Percy

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I – a car?

– Cyndi Lauper

I don’t like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

– Arlen Specter

Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

– Alexander Grothendieck

Very often there’s this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

– Daniel Day-Lewis

A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

– George Will

Dramatically it’s always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

– Damian Lewis

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

– Pierre Corneille

That is to say, nature’s laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

– Edward Tufte

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

– David Copperfield

In comics, there are depths that don’t reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about ‘Watching the Watchmen’ – like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air – might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.

– Dave Gibbons

It’s easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

– Erica Durance

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

– Douglas Alexander

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

– Errol Morris

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

– Emmanuelle Chriqui

I’m not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That’s the show now.

– Eddie Murphy

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