Awful Quotes - Page 35

• Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits.

  Dov Davidoff

  Benefits, Duvets, Homeless

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 19, 2011

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• ... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

  Ezra Stoller

  Photography, Art, Typewriters

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• I am not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares. I'm sorry. I'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, Sorry, Guy

  "Fight for Justice: Missing Texas Woman Victim of Mexico's Drug War". "The Glenn Beck Program" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. February 3, 2009.

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• To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

  Marilyn Manson

  Vietnam, Columbine

  "Q&A: A Conversation With Marilyn Manson and Ray Manzarek". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.rollingstone.com. ugust 16, 2012.

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• I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

  Terry Matthews

  Angel, People, Funding

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• At one point, I even thought, "Oh, I'll take diet pills." I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Heart, One Day, Pills

  "Jenna Aks: Have You Ever Tried A Fad Diet?" by Jenna Ushkowitz, www.seventeen.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

  George Shearing

  Couple, Thinking, Piano

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• In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing

  Justine Frischmann

  Mean, Oasis, America

  "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)

  John Filo

  Girl, Cameras, Shooting

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• I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an example- before he was listening to some country music, even some of that awful nu-metal stuff , but there weren't many options really.

  James Mercer

  Country, Brother, Real

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• I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.

  Suzanne Somers

  Cancer, Body, Vitamins

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

  Bette Davis

  Men, Thinking, Littles

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• To me, what I've always said is that the president [Barack Obama] has set up an awful situation through his deal with Iran, because what his deal with Iran has done is empower them and enrich them. And that's the way ISIS has been created and formed here. ISIS is created and formed because of the abuse that [Bashar] Assad and his Iranian sponsors have rained down on the Sunnis in Syria.

  Chris Christie

  Isis, Iran, Empowering

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", December 16, 2015.

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• I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.

  Zach Condon

  Writing, Cocky, Giving

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• I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

  Peter Webber

  Hamburgers, Saws, Actresses

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

  Shane Filan

  Couple, Stress, Twilight

  "Westlife's Shane Filan talks about crippling bankruptcy and losing £18 million" by Victoria Garo-Falides, www.mirror.co.uk. August 9, 2013.

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• I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Terrible, Powerlessness

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• I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

  Steve Coogan

  People, Car, Might

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• My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.

  Chris Pine

  Two, Anxiety, Emotion

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• I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Reading, Would Be, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

  Joel Stein

  Moving, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Artist, Years

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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• When I met someone who I thought was really talented, I would just be like, Wow! How did you get that way? And I met a lot of people who would just do anything to claw their way to the top, and it was just shocking and awful for me to see that for the first time. And now I live in Manhattan so I have become desensitized to that.

  Larkin Grimm

  People, Way, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump.

  Ryan Grim

  Writing, Stories, Trump

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin and Michael Oreskes, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.

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• Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

  Gabriel Mann

  Fun, Doe, Different

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