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I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. -- David Ogden Stiers
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around. -- Naomi Judd
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. -- Ovid
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. -- Michel de Montaigne
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. -- John Thorn
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. -- Louis Farrakhan
A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. -- Mark Twain
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards! -- Charles Spurgeon
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. -- Ann Coulter
These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. -- Jane Russell
I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.' -- Nicolas Cage
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. -- Ovid
Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. -- Shana Alexander
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. -- Anne Sullivan
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. -- Ronald Reagan
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it. -- William Howard Taft
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit. -- Miyamoto Musashi
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. -- Hassan al-Banna
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. -- Anne Sullivan
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised. -- Kristina McMorris
Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things. -- Cara Delevingne
I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion. -- Elizabeth Vargas
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. -- Ernie Harwell
My films do have a big following among young girls, and I want to instill confidence in them, a sense of self-appreciation - to make them feel they can be spirited and say what they feel. -- Gurinder Chadha
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of. -- Natalie Dormer
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We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue. -- George Allen
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters. -- Marc Jacobs
I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. -- Louis Farrakhan
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships. -- Barbra Streisand
I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail. -- Preston Sturges
If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. -- John Lasseter
I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. -- Louis Farrakhan
Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy. -- Candice S. Miller
I'm very free-spirited. -- Lady Gaga
There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters. -- Adam McKay
I'm ... free-spirited. Maybe a little too free-spirited. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble. -- Sienna Miller
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited. -- John Cleese
I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited. -- Matt Salmon
If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition. -- Dalai Lama
In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls. -- Umberto Eco
It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore. -- Alan Moore
I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt. -- Don Rickles
Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going... -- Warren Miller
Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling. -- Rajashree Choudhury
I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning. -- Frank Gehry
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. -- Diane Lane
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. -- Pat Conroy
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. -- Xun Zi
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I'm definitely light-spirited, but I just felt like my music had to have a little more depth. -- Nick Cannon
To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court. -- Mats Wilander
I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited. -- Ted Nugent
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. -- Albert Murray
I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real. -- Tracy McMillan
I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited. -- Lana Del Rey
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. -- Alexandra David-Neel
Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America. -- J. Frank Dobie
one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow. -- Stevie Smith
If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything. -- Stephen Fry
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. -- Horace
Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong. -- Vance Havner
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. -- Walt Whitman
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. -- Plato
I want to try to counter what Donald Trump says because a lot of it is mean-spirited and would hurt people. -- Hillary Clinton
My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense. -- Marianne Williamson
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. -- Louis XVIII of France
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. -- Euripides
I didn't like the 'Survivor' shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. -- Sharon Lawrence
I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. --
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it. -- Rush Limbaugh
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity. -- Horace
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' -- C. S. Lewis
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves. -- Kevyn Aucoin
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy. -- Michael Schur
I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way. -- Don Rickles
My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day. -- Gary Sinise
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited. -- Elizabeth Lesser
I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood. -- Albert Einstein
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. -- Vivienne Westwood
I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. -- Tracey Ullman
I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge. -- Cheryl Tiegs
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed. -- Stephen L. Carter
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world. -- Kedar Joshi
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy. -- Jason Bateman
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all. -- Charles de Lint
I don't want [to work] people who agree with me. I want honest, spirited, hard-working, patriotic people who want to be part of a team, the American team. -- Hillary Clinton
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate. -- William Hazlitt
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines? -- Ellen Terry
Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? -- George Stephanopoulos
I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor. -- Jim Goad
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference. -- S. J. Perelman
I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory. -- George A. Romero
I know my girlfriend is free-spirited. I know she's so charming that it's disarming. I get it. And I know that every man is going to fall in love with her. -- Wilmer Valderrama
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot. -- Ian Mcewan
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery -- Joseph Pulitzer
Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but with the wild and romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as if her veins were full of wine. -- Lola Montez
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. -- Joseph Pulitzer
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. -- Edward Alsworth Ross
Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad. -- Aurelio Voltaire Hernández
I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion. -- Elizabeth Vargas
I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there. -- John McCain
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day. -- Diane Ackerman
I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy. -- Melissa McCarthy
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry. -- Sarah Fielding
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor. -- Tom Tomorrow
I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope. -- Vashti Bunyan
Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down -- John Frusciante
So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited. -- Lee Scott

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