Awful Quotes

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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

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• How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, Gossip

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bored, Waiting For Godot, Inertia

  Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

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• I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

  Chris Martin

  Hair, Care, Being Cool

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• I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

  David Bowie

  Liars, Agree

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.32, Melville House

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• Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Giving, Chance

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

  Gina Barreca

  Thinking, Stories, Chance

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• The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, World, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

  Milton Friedman

  Wind, People, Economics

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• I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

  Sean Lennon

  Thinking, Sound, Matter

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

  Kate Winslet

  Believe, Actresses, Kind

  "Acting Out" by Megan Deem, www.elle.com. September 15, 2007.

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• Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

  Sally Ride

  Busy, Wells, Experiments

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• Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

  Lynda Barry

  Names, Quiet, Heard

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• whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, German Language

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 22 (1889)

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• I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

  Brian Eno

  Bloody, Multi Tasking

  "Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial". Interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

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• From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

  Leon Trotsky

  Patriotic, Reality, People

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.764, Haymarket Books

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• I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Girl, Talking, Littles

  "Get to Know Fall's Hot Guys!" by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

  Tom Ford

  Tantrums, Staff, Direct

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

  Jane Pauley

  Expectations, Underestimate, Results

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• I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Believe, Would Be, Needs

  "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith, archive.nytimes.com. January 9, 1966.

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• When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

  Jennifer Echols

  People, Sometimes, Stuck

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Such A Rush”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  Eddie Bracken

  Hollywood, Trouble

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• If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Giving, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence”

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