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At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.

~Alex Berenson

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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

~Alice Walker

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I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

~Andrew Lincoln

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With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

~Anthony Horowitz

Topics: Audience Away Been Distressed Every Father Father Figure Figure Further Get Grandfather Happy Kids Little Myself Passes Target Think Thought While Year

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Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Best Buy Celebration Distressed Economically Elsewhere Footage How Just Large Our Out People Percentage Populace Rather Reminder Remotely

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Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

~Bayard Rustin

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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

~Confucius

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I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

~David J. C. Mackay

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I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

~David Rockefeller

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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

~Edward Lear

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