Causing Trouble Quotes

• Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Touching, Fixing, Trouble

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• Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

  Michael Gambon

  Boys, Bored, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Kindness, Thinking

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.59, Penguin

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• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

  Gary Numan

  Children, Home, School

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

  Enoch Powell

  Mistake, People, Trouble

  John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

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• I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We'd ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.

  Chuck Mosley

  Fighting, Dancing, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

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• What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Hate, Home

  "MUHAMMAD ALI DEFENDS HIS RELIGION Says Islam is for peace" by Lisa L. Colangelo, Clem Richardson, www.nydailynews.com. September 21, 2001.

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• Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Confusion, Together, Ugly

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you're president, you can't go anywhere without causing trouble. President Obama shows up in China, he's chewing gum, they go crazy. A big stink because the president's chewing gum. And you think, the Chinese are so easygoing about human rights. What's the problem?

  David Letterman

  Crazy, Thinking, Rights

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• a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

  Agatha Christie

  Oysters, People, Trouble

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• I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

  Peter DeLuise

  Years, Discipline, Twenties

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Trouble, Ends, Said

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• So I think all gays who are born gay are overwhelming conservative, maybe apolitical, and all those angry gays, causing trouble for everybody, I don't think they were born gay. I think they are just angry at their fathers.

  Ann Coulter

  Father, Gay, Thinking

  "In Depth with Ann Coulter". C-SPAN Book TV Series Interview, www.c-span.org. August 7, 2011.

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