Awful Quotes - Page 40

• I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

  Pete Wells

  Thinking, Culture, Chef

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Priorities, States

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I mean they [ Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis] are both just really good guys and also they're both extremely funny in very unique ways. We made each other laugh an awful lot, and that goes a long way. And we also went through some hard times. I mean it was hard to make this movie [The Hangover].

  Ed Helms

  Hangover, Mean, Hard Times

  Source: movies.about.com

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• The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I thought immediately this is someone who is writing for the cinema. Not having to go through the tedious business of taking something from literature and making that awful leap that is so difficult to make anyway, from literature to cinema. It's refreshing to be able to deal with a subject like that, to be written where the driving force is the image on screen and you don't need any words. The more that we can do that [in film], the better.

  John Hurt

  Writing, Able, Scripts

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White Russians. This is where [Leon] Theremin met a lot of people, and where the KGB eventually picked him up.

  Paul Laffoley

  Horse, Kgb, White

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Cutting, Sick

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything.

  George Carlin

  Coke, Body, Language

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

  William Kristol

  Real, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Fox gets two million viewers a night, and MSNBC gets one. It's four million people, five million people, and 130 million people are going to vote. There are an awful lot of voters, and an awful lot of politically engaged, intelligent people who are not hanging on whatever happens on Bill O'Reilly or Rachel Maddow.

  William Kristol

  Intelligent, Night, Two

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Donald Trump is an awful loser.

  Gene Weingarten

  Loser, Trump

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• There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

  John Shelby Spong

  Ignorance, Biblical, Church

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Children, Want, Refugee

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Community, Police

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

  Bill Gates

  Past, People, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.

  Peter James

  Book, Thinking, Paranormal

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah, blah, blah, as a fiction movie. Or it can be as awful as a fiction movie!

  Frederick Wiseman

  Class, Interesting, Bullshit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

  Source: www.pinkfloydonline.com

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• That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially exploiting an already exploited and abused woman. So it's a huge concern for me.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Snakes, Worry

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Monsters, Humans

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew right away that it was going to be a hit because it's the type of programming that I like to watch. It's that very morally ambiguous thing where you find yourself rooting for someone who's really an awful person, but... is he doing good? You're constantly calling into question your own moral code. I love that as an audience member.

  Julie Benz

  Finding Yourself, Calling, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

  Noam Chomsky

  Zero, War, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The fact is when I get pissed off about something or something awful has happened, I just say, 'You know what? Thank you very much. Thank you for the lyrics. Because that is exactly what you just gave me.' There's no real negative then. So if something happens, I don't cry about it. I just find myself a pen and I figure it out.

  Joss Stone

  Real, Pissed Off, Negative

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Quality, Looks

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

  Jane Jacobs

  Clever, Intelligent, Constructive

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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