Awful Quotes - Page 36

• Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She did an event at my bookstore, and she was really, really nice, and even more beautiful in person." I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to hear that she was awful and hideous-looking. But I thought, I have to listen to that. I have to hear that. I don't want to be the one who is going to deny anything complimentary said about somebody just because I disagree with that person.

  David Sedaris

  Beautiful, Nice, Book

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• Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.

  Seymour Hersh

  Talking, Law, White

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.

  Seymour Hersh

  Thinking, People, Bags

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless. We have to prevent these crimes and these awful, awful killings. I just hope people pay attention to it.

  Veronika Varekova

  People, Attention, Pay

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Criticism, Communism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I have worked and earned all my life and have found that divorce is an expensive process. Whichever way you look at it, you are going to halve your wealth. If you can avoid it, do. It is an awful process.

  Anthea Turner

  Divorce, Looks, Way

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

  Harry Turtledove

  Reading, Writing, Half

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.

  James Purefoy

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  "‘Hap and Leonard': James Purefoy on the Show’s ‘Butch and Sundance’ Vibe". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2016.

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• It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

  Alex Scally

  Fans, Boring

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three times around the block to get in. And when they got to the head of the queue, they'd go, "I'll have a Big Mac please. Have you the cheese and the rolls? And do you have the meat and do you have the salad?" And everybody asks this because they are so used to things being awful that it took them a quarter of an hour to order a Big Mac.

  John Gimlette

  Block, Mcdonalds, Order

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

  Bradford Cox

  Writing, Stuff, Capacity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

  Gavin Hood

  Military, Conflict, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.

  Zach Condon

  Cutting, Class, Years

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won customers over in technology - say, Apple and Google - you find that they spend billions of dollars on R&D each year, often spending that much on a product before they ever make a dime back in profits.

  Ramez Naam

  Technology, Years, Apples

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

  Malachy McCourt

  Thinking, Come Up, Happens

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Disease, Dread, Alcoholism

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

  Malachy McCourt

  Suicide, People, Strange

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

  Ted Koppel

  Morning, Night, People

  "The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis". Interview with Sarah Goldstein, www.gq.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

  Ian Astbury

  Hate, I Hate, Pictures Of Myself

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that.

  Brian Henson

  Scene, Audience, Knows

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

  Rand Paul

  Hands, Bullets, Watches

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.

  Neil Gaiman

  Imagination, Needs, Film

  "Neil Gaiman On Returning To 'Sandman,' Talking In His Sleep And The Power Of Comics". "Fresh Air" with Sam Briger, www.npr.org. December 15, 2015.

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