Annoying Quotes - Page 26

• I'm not annoying in relationships! I'm great!

  Leona Lewis

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

  Marc Maron

  Disappointment, People, Challenges

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.75, Spiegel & Grau

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• Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country, but he would like to be allowed to criticize something, and that he is absolutely refused.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Political, Ordinary

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

  Socrates

  Funny, Spiritual, Intelligent

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• We want our children to become who they are- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying

  Gregory Millman

  Children, Mean, Parenting

  Martine Millman, Gregory Millman (2008). “Homeschooling: A Family's Journey”, p.69, Penguin

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• He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

  James Patterson

  Relationship, Dog, Flower

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• Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

  Michael Stipe

  Music, Uplifting, Records

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• We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

  Louise Jameson

  Annoyed, Leaving, Victim

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• Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

  Daniel Quinn

  Education, School, Prison

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• The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  Harlan Coben

  Writing, Care, Reader

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• If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default-setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reality, Important, Want

  "One Speech by This 90s Literary Giant Holds the Key to Ending Polarization in America" by Philip Perry, bigthink.com.

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• Facts and particulars annoy me.

  Clarice Lispector

  Facts

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• Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, People, What If

  "Comedian Jim Gaffigan Shares How To Survive Holiday Political Debates". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. November 23, 2016.

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• I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

  Jack Whitehall

  Dad, Vote, My Dad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

  Andrew Scott

  People, Actors, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.

  Olivia Munn

  Guy, My Boyfriend, Want

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• It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Asks, Hard

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• Knowledge is almost annoying.

  Karl Pilkington

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• There’s something about pleasure I find annoying.

  Christopher Kimball

  Pleasure

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• It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

  Thom Yorke

  Voice, Singing, Sound

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• Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Self, Dying

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

  Roland Emmerich

  Movie, Purpose, Actors

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• I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

  E. W. Howe

  Trying, Half, World

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• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  Sam Palladio

  Guitar, Play, Trying

  "Nashville’s Sam Palladio on the Music, Avoiding TMZ, and Gunnar and Scarlett". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Discs and memory are far cheaper than annoying your customers.

  Steve Huffman

  Memories, Discs, Cheaper

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