Annoying Quotes - Page 32

• People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

  Patrice Evra

  Lying, People, France

  "French football's best quotes in 2013: Zlatan, Beckham, Barton and Ribéry" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I'm just a goofball.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become
  strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

  Henry Rollins

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• With girls, there's an insecurity that starts early on. It hangs around them, like some annoying kid from down the block who won't take the hint and go home when dinnertime comes. And moms are usually not great at giving their daughters confidence.

  Steve Schirripa

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new

  Penelope Trunk

  Ifs

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Being Yourself, Unique, Editors

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, Random House

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• We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.

  Bob Goff

  Light, Leaving, World

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jan 31, 2015

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• We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

  Michael O'Leary

  Environmental, Want, Best Things

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• We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Real, Passion

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

  Sarah Palin

  Lying, Bored, Internet

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• There are no new ideas about female education.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ideas, New Ideas

  "What's Wrong with the World". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Part Four: Education: Or the Mistake About the Child, Ch. 14: Folly and Female Education, 1910.

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• There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Communication, Play

  "Language and Responsibility". Book by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. 1977.

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• I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Home, Successful

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3332, e-artnow

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  Gay, People, Tolerance

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• Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Hate, Character

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