Awful Quotes - Page 37

• Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Clothes, Actors, Costumes

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

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• I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.

  James Hillman

  Hard Work, People, Political

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

  Alastair Campbell

  Trying, Together, Six

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I don't think that a white woman is in denial when she dyes her hair blonde. And I actually think we are the most varied in terms of the choices we make about our hair. Some of it may be political or psychological, but an awful lot of it is just aesthetic, how we like to view ourselves when we look in the mirror.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Thinking, Views, White

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

  Andrew Solomon

  Ideas, Loses

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

  Andrew Solomon

  Thinking, People, World

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• I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Mean, Goal, Noble

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.

  Carolyn Hax

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

  Jayni Chase

  Selfish, People, Decision

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You turn on the television, it's like, "Woah is me! God almighty, we're awful." We are so down and out we are - name me a country in the world, name me one leader anywhere in the world who wouldn't trade places in a heartbeat. We by far, we're going to own the 21st century.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Names, Leader

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The awful thing is we don't respect each other.

  Jane Goodall

  Respect Each Other

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Pain, Feelings, Needs

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• Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Character, Judging, Middle East

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Lying, Selfish, People

  "Chris Christie's Convention Speech Attacking Hillary Clinton". time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

  William Golding

  Honestly, Contemporary, Havens

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

  Bret Stephens

  Events, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The breakup of my first marriage was my first failure; I had to learn to accept that and support the people involved. The court case brought against me by three of the band was awful, but learning how to let it go, move on, and come back together as friends and creative partners was a life lesson above any other.

  Gary Kemp

  Breakup, Life Lesson, Moving

  "Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp: Letting go of bad experiences and having OCD". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

  Christiane Northrup

  Self, Connections, Needs

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• And then there was moments with white guy where like we would be in Harlem. There would be five brothers in the corner, and this is an awful feeling but you're holding his hand and you want to pull your hand away cause you don't want the judgment. And you're gonna get the judgment even if it's just in looks. And the black men are the worst when it comes to judging.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Brother, Men, Hands

  Source: www.today.com

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• The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Practice, Trying

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Insomnia, Feelings, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

  Maria Semple

  Home, My Boyfriend, Way

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

  Edward Albee

  Successful, Play, Window

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

  Patti Callahan Henry

  Broken, Choices, Sometimes

  Patti Callahan Henry (2011). “Coming Up for Air”, p.144, St. Martin's Press

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• Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.

  Valery Bryusov

  Genocide, Massacres, Dare

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