Awful Quotes - Page 32

• My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.

  Blake Judd

  Sorry, Apology, People

  "Scion Rock Fest: Photos and Nachtmystium Controversy" by Amy Phillips and Mike White, pitchfork.com. March 02, 2009.

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• Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

  Sax Rohmer

  Cat, Eye, Men

  Phillip J. Morledge, Sax Rohmer (2008). “Fu Manchu”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?

  Laurent Blanc

  Unfair, Penalties

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• That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Forever, Achievement

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• As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.

  Angela Lansbury

  Kids, Player, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

  Brian Blessed

  Animal, Bloody, I Can

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Dishwashers, Very Good, Terrible

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Differences, Feelings, God Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

  Sean Penn

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Comfort, Gowns, Aging

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• I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

  Tony Bennett

  Dream, Get Better

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2014

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• Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

  Butch Hancock

  Sex, Texas, Taught

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• Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Lying, Interesting

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• You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to have something super-delicious. And when you're standing at that crossroads your whole life can change, depending on which one you go into - the good restaurant or the awful one.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, People, Important

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.269, Random House

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• The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

  Mark Twain

  Ink, Machines, May

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• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

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• The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

  Robert Fulghum

  Feel Good, Feelings

  Robert Fulghum (1993). “Maybe (maybe not): second thoughts from a secret life”

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• I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

  Douglas Adams

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. November 8, 2000.

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• I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. A lot of rough stuff as well. What there is, too, is an awful lot of expressiveness and intelligence and originality down there. And a lot of thwarted intelligence.

  Martin Amis

  Witty, Thinking, Class

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Taken, Church

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It's awful hard to reach consensus. It's awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Hands, Greed

  "Best and worst of 2015 commencement address season". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

  Joan Baez

  Kids, Thinking, Answers

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• The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said, 'I only do drugs so I can drink more'. I was doing the coke so I could drink more. I mean, I don't know any other reason. I'd start drinking in the morning. I'd drink all day long.

  Dennis Hopper

  Morning, Drinking, Mean

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

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• I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Football, Hurt, Nice

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• Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Character, Men

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