Annoying Quotes - Page 31

• The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

  Vijay Prashad

  Often Is, Tolerance, Culture

  Vijay Prashad (2001). “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity”

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• We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

  Taylor Swift

  Fun, People, Live Your Life

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• A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.

  Tom Lichtenheld

  Interesting, Together, Way

  Tom Lichtenheld (2005). “Everything I Know About Cars”, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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• Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Asking Permission, Might, Train

  Amy Vanderbilt (1967). “Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette”

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• I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

  Linus Torvalds

  Taken, Linux, Hell

  "Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds". Q&A session with the audience at the panel at Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi, www.youtube.com. June 14, 2012.

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• I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist .' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Growing Up, Real, Long Ago

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘When A Nation Dreams Big, Its Citizenry Dreams Big’". Interview with Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.

  George Will

  Art, Dark, Thinking

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• You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,’ so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.

  Mark Schaefer

  Ubiquity, Needs, Delight

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• There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

  Mark Lawrence

  Children, Silence, Sound

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.324, Penguin

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• Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.

  Angelina Jolie

  Art, Children, Book

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• I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things about me but the fact is that even through all that we love each other. We love each other in spite of our flaws and despite all the things we do that should make us hate each other we still continue to fall deeper in love. Sometimes we want to hate each other but for two people who are truly in love it simply isn't possible. Not even a little but, not even at all.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Hate, Fall, Romantic Love

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• Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Entrepreneur, Negative

  Twitter post from Jan 5, 2013

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• According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Real, Differences

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• ...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Grateful, Being Thankful

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• The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

  Julian Casablancas

  Hands, Jerk, British

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• I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

  Julian Casablancas

  People, Want, Stuff

  "Group Therapy" by Jay McInerney, nymag.com.

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• You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Brother, Glimpse, Insufferable

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.285, Harlequin

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• That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Truth

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

  Darby Conley

  Principles, Ethics

  "Get Fuzzy". Comic Strip, August 15, 2007.

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• It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

  Robert Breault

  People, Stories, Half

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• When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

  Brené Brown

  Riding, Driving, Shame

  FaceBook post by Brené Brown from Jun 13, 2013

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• The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Curiosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suffering, Wicked, Injustice

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.814, Routledge

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• It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.

  Samir Nasri

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Without our injuries Arsenal would be top of league, says Samir Nasri", April 20, 2010.

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