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“I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.”
“I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.”
“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.”
“Younger guys are just too jealous.”
“I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.”
“I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.”
“Do I want to be in St. Louis forever? Of course. People from other teams want to play in St. Louis, and they’re jealous that we’re in St. Louis because the fans are unbelievable. So why would you want to leave a place like St. Louis to go somewhere else and make $3 million or $4 more million a year? It’s not about the money.”
“Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.”
“Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.”
“In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.”
“I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.”
“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
“I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.”
“I’ve really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I’ve just learned to own it though.”
“You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.”
“As proud as I am of being Polish-Canadian, sometimes I’m so jealous I wasn’t born Italian.”
“I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that’s normal. It’s a very normal emotion. It’s your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.”
“I work so hard, even Donna Summer would be jealous.”
“Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.”
“You know, sometimes you’re jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I’ve come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path.”
“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”
“I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it’s going to drive the other person away.”
“I’m always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who’s not going to get jealous about any of that, or when I’m kissing somebody in a scene.”
“I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.”
“I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being – jealous. ‘Don’t do it! Stop.’ It was depressing, and I couldn’t take it.”
“I gotta be honest with you. I’m kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?”
“When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.”
“Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn’t jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.”
“Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don’t have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.”
“I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It’s business.”
“Men are just jealous because they can’t wear makeup.”
“I’ve been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can’t when you’re in the middle of it.”
“Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they’re going to hit the ball. I will. I’ll call my shots.”
“As long as you have a plan for how you’ll live, don’t let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.”
“I’m not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They’re really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.”
“I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.”
“I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.”
“Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they’re way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians – I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.”
“I think some of the people on the Left… were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.”
“I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That’s not the case with me, or any other girl I know.”
“It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”
“That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it.”
“It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.”
“My family went Intellivision instead of Atari. I would go over to my friends’ houses to play their Ataris and was so jealous of that. I don’t remember them ever being jealous that I had the Intellivision.”
“Sometimes I get jealous when I’m reading a great book by a younger writer. But ‘White Tiger’ is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.”
“I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ – we were the same age. I would just think, ‘God, that little kid can work, and I can’t!’”
“Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.”
“I’m looking forward to the fighting with no headgear – I’m jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear.”
“I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys’ toys; I don’t remember owning any dolls.”
“I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.”
“The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.”
“With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It’s so all-encompassing and exhausting. I’m not saying that’s not some women, but it’s just not all of us.”
“Old habits are strong and jealous.”
“It’s easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.”
“I get nervous before every shoot. I’m really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, ‘I’m good; this is it.’”
“I’m the opposite of jealous.”
“I’ve never been jealous of anybody’s success. I’ve been flummoxed by it because I don’t understand it, but I’m not jealous of it.”
“People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.”
“I fancy all the Disney princes, obviously. I also fancy some objects and animals that are in Disney films, like the French Candlestick from ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and I used to be slightly jealous of the feather duster that he used to slightly get off with.”
“What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don’t anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors – that stuff hurts.”
“When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.”
“When I was younger, I always saw my friends with their mothers and fathers and felt a little jealous of them for having a father close by.”
“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.”
“I’m not jealous, and I’m not possessive, and I’m not controlling.”
“I remember being awed by it – the uniqueness and nicety of style – and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.”
“Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.”
“Politicians are nauseating by definition… They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.”
“There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don’t know what drives someone to be nasty.”
“Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.”
“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain – do something to make more money yourself.”
“Growing up in Northern California, I’ve only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.”
“In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that’s employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.”
“I have come to the conclusion that it’s a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it’s good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.”
“But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.”
“Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.”
“I don’t get jealous of other girls, because I was… raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect woman for Hugh M. Hefner, so, other than the fact that my I.Q.’s probably a little higher than he would like, I have nothing to worry about.”
“New York is a spectacular place, and those who are jealous of the way we live our lives are always going to, you know, to strike out, and, you know, we’re always going to be a target, sadly. London is going to be a target. You know, anywhere in the West, you’re a target.”
“I’m quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you’re too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children.”
“Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.”
“Men don’t avoid successful women because they’re jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.”
“I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.”
“I don’t like being jealous.”
“No matter who you date, people are going to make fun of them, jealous people are going to say stuff, people get creepy – all the things that come with the public eye.”
“I don’t want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn’t getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn’t really a priority.”
“I ended up having my first girlfriend when I was 13, and she was obsessed with Justin Bieber. I remember watching the ‘Baby’ music video and being so jealous of him. So I posted a cover of ‘One Time’ on YouTube, and she loved it.”
“I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.”
“For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it’s like they just get worse or something over time. And then you’re really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they’ll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I’m going to reverse that, I hope.”
“The goddess Physics was Stephen’s idol. I was not jealous of her, but she did give me some cause for concern.”
“I can’t watch ‘Glee’ because I get so jealous that I’m not there with them doing it that I can’t even watch.”
“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”
“Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you’ll wake up one day and realise you’re living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.”
“I’m very jealous of my daughter’s education. She’s been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.”
“It doesn’t matter who wins if I don’t. I only care if I win. I’m jealous of anyone else who wins.”
“Society, they look down on teenage moms and dads, but I think those people are just jealous because they’ll never know what it’s like to be raised by someone who’s still being raised.”
“If a player has jewelry or a cool car, people in Germany are instantly jealous.”
“I’m someone who needs more sleep than average, and I’m quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they’re good to go.”
“Women didn’t want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands’ diverted attention.”
“People is, I think, it’s their nature – some people’s nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else’s blessings.”
“We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.”
“When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of acting jobs. There were definitely some girls that were either jealous or thought I was a snob. I was just trying to be a teenage girl and go to high school and have fun like everybody else!”
“I’d see child actors and I’d get so jealous, because they’re just completely wide open.”
“The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.”
“The storyboard department doesn’t talk to the layout department, which doesn’t talk to the writing department. They’re all jealous of each other.”
“I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.”
“Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I’m jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.”
“It’s kinda hard to date as an artist because you’re all over the place, and your significant other may seem jealous, depending on what they’re doing.”
“There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.”
“And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.”
“My husband is not a jealous person in any way.”
“Can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor… though it felt like something I couldn’t do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors – I recall seeing them on my dad’s shoots and getting jealous.”
“People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.”
“I’m so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.”
“I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.”
“I don’t want to be followed by random men I don’t know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can’t post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.”
“I don’t know how many times I literally hear this. It’s the worst pun in the world from some idiotic frat guy. It’s like, ‘You must be ‘Jealous’ of Nick!’ Constantly! It’s like, why? He’s doing his thing. I’m doing mine! He’s happy. I’m happy.”
“I don’t wish anybody ill, I really don’t. I’ve got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or… it’s a waste of time.”
“I don’t think Othello is a jealous man – he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person… The playwright uses the word ‘jealousy’ over and over and over again, but I don’t think it has anything to do with being jealous.”
“I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.”
“Now, is Lil B jealous of Kevin Durant on the basketball court? Hmm. Maybe. Maybe not. I love basketball. Do I wish I could play in front of all those people everyday, all day? Of course. I love basketball.”
“When the planes crashed into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, Bush immediately identified what he thought was the true cause. It was because the Muslims were jealous of the freedom of the American people. It was because the Muslims were poor. This exposes a lack of understanding of things on his part.”
“I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He’s not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.”
“Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.”
“Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don’t. I’m to some extent rather jealous of them.”
“I don’t have a problem being on ‘MTV,’ and I don’t have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.”
“I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.”
“I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.”
“I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn’t working at New Line.”
“I was improving in the sport at age 10, 11, when I was getting my triple jumps – and it was suddenly very isolating. I was doing really well in competitions, and it felt strange because people that were my friends became almost jealous.”
“Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.”
“A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
“Anyone that hates on you is always below you, because they’re just jealous of what you have.”
“I’ve been on Letterman a couple of times. I’ve been on Leno more than a couple times, and now Letterman hates me because I’ve been on Leno more than him. They’re very jealous of one another, as you know.”
“Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”
“I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.”
“That’s the miracle of Amazon! It’s like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.”
“I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I’m jealous.”
“Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what’s causing it.”
“A lot of people are jealous about Man United, so they just keep criticising, even when they win.”
“My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don’t really get jealous, we get inspired, and that’s kind of the mark of what a good writer is.”
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
“I always get jealous when I’m in London because the men are so well put together. They wear suits with shoes and ties that have splashes of colour here and there.”
“There are people that you don’t like because you’re jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven’t read their book because it’s had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they’ve been jealous of you, and you become friends.”
“14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of – and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness.”
“You’re going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That’s how it is.”
“I can give you a ‘Selfish,’ and I can still come give you, like, a ‘Jealous.’ I’m coming from the streets, but I can still give you personal situations and relationships that I’ve been in with females. You just never know; I’m just coming different.”
“If I hadn’t been part of ‘3 Idiots,’ I would have felt bloody jealous.”
“That’s a rule in the business. No tongue. You can’t really get into it, otherwise, it’s weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.”
“I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.”
“Feeling jealous doesn’t make you a terrible person.”
“Being jealous of a friend doesn’t mean you hate her or wish her ill.”
“For a few years, we lived with our grandmother in Kingston, and I remember watching the other kids with their mums and just feeling really jealous. I didn’t fully understand what my mum was doing for us. I just knew that she was gone. My grandma was amazing, but everybody wants their mum at that age.”
“People across the country think I’m jealous of my dear, beloved, sweet, angel sister. But there is no-o-o-o jea-ea-ea- lou-ou-ou-ou-sy-y-y-y. I love her too much.”
“We didn’t get along, me and Bill Murray. But I’ve got to give it to him: I don’t like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I’m also jealous that he’s a better golfer than I am.”
“My wife’s hip, beautiful and independent and never jealous.”
“I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.”
“I don’t get jealous – I get suspicious.”
“Sport has taught me never to be jealous of someone or insecure if somebody is doing well. It’s taught me teamwork and the value of patience. Even If I lose, I know that I’ve actually not lost.”
“The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.”
“Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They’re jealous of Justin Timberlake. I’m sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.”
“Everybody who’s anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They’re jealous of Justin Timberlake. I’m sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.”
“I was always jealous of something getting more attention.”
“I am jealous of Jessica Biel because that Justin Timberlake is hot as anything.”
“You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.”
“I’m not jealous of anybody, because I’m going to live my life the way I want to live it. I’m not going to be like, ‘Oh my God they have this, I want that.’”
“What’s more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.”
“Well actually, some weeks they’ll write that I’m jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they’ll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It’s ridiculous!”
“He that is jealous is not in love.”
“Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.”
“It’s really cool, the opportunities that NXT brings. Who would ever thought that Jushin Liger would be in this company, Samoa Joe, Sami Zayn? It’s crazy. Man, I don’t know, bring anybody. I want to wrestle with everybody. Even I want to wrestle Jushin Liger, so I’m jealous.”
“Dead fish don’t swim around in jealous tides.”
“The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn’t tell a joke to save my life.”
“I did follow ‘Game of Thrones.’ I’m incredibly jealous of that cast. I mean, I would have loved to have been on that.”
“Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.”
“I’ve always been the breadwinner and men don’t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.”
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
“I’ve always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you’re a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can’t fit as much in. I’m just a big fan of storytelling.”
“I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.”
“My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous.”
“I’m always jealous of Johnny Depp’s sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy hat and waistcoat, I’d look like a homeless person.”
“I remember when I saw ‘X-Men’ the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who’s an Englishman, made me watch the movie… He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.”
“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”
“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.”
“I was incredibly jealous of friends who had bit parts in ‘Home and Away.’ I just hoped I’d somehow be allowed into this game.”
“I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.”
“Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each other, and even cry together.”
“I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it’s possible to be ageless – people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!”
“That’s the only thing I’m jealous about ‘Game of Thrones’: they get to go to Spain all the time.”
“Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.”
“Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.”
“It’s not healthy to be jealous.”
“Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.”
“We get jealous not because we’re evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
“Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.”
“I’ve never been jealous. I’ve never had to be.”
“I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.”
