Blunt Quotes

• I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

  Tupac Shakur

  Suicide, Pain, Blow

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• I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

  Jay London

  Boyfriend, Father, Tears

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• I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

  Robert Teeter

  Christmas, Country, Stupid

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• 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Stupid, Literature

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Stupid, Reality

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

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• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Stupid, Character, Talking

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• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Personal Opinions, Perception

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics

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• Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Stupid, Skills, Political

  "Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography". Book by John Ransley, p. 345, 1991.

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• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  Barbara Walters

  Women, Brainstorming, Conversation

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• A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

  William Wordsworth

  Stupid, Mind, Acting

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.370

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• There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

  Emily Blunt

  Tunnels, Light, Ends

  "Stars Spotlight Personal Triumphs Over Stuttering" by Alan Mozes, abcnews.go.com.

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• A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

  Mason Cooley

  Stupid, Literature, Statements

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• About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Stupid, Axes, Trying

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

  Blaise Pascal

  Stupid, Justice, Tools

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

  Emily Blunt

  Crazy, Eye, Car

  "Fashion Interview: Emily Blunt At Gnomeo And Juliet". Interview with Zoe Griffin, blog.very.co.uk. February 1, 2011.

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• I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

  Emily Blunt

  Beautiful, Nice, Thinking

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• I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Stupid, Looks, Look At Me

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Knives, Simplicity

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• Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

  Max Beerbohm

  Stupid, Character, Men

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Truth, Math

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

  Tony Blair

  Change, Country, Sacrifice

  Tony Blair's address to the the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported in "Blair signals shift over climate change" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2005.

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• I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

  James Blunt

  Men, Dumped

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2012

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• If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Stupid, Office, President

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.694, Best Books on

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• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  James Thurber

  Witty, Stupid, Trying

  Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

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• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Stupid, Jazz

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