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After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

— Alice McDermott

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

— Jerry Jones

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

— Clare Balding

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

— Susan Minot

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

— Samantha Morton

Professionally I would say taking up my constituents' problems is something I continue to enjoy after 22 years as an MP.

— Charles Kennedy

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

— Russell M. Nelson

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded. They're very worried about how people are going to react to what they say.

— Jamie Johnson

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

— Val Kilmer

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

✗Opposing Perspectives

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

— Abbe Pierre