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• I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

  Zoe Saldana

  Leadership, Queens, Play

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• I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

  Jay Duplass

  Hobbies, Needs, Primaries

  "Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Creators of 'The Puffy Chair'". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 17, 2006.

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• As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: "high spirits" are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage.

  Robin Lakoff

  Girl, Children, Women

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• I can't complain about anything. It's like saying, "I don't like talkies." Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone. Believe me, if you ever want to watch my early films they would look a lot better on your phone than they would on a movie screen. The smaller the better.

  John Waters

  Believe, Phones, Long

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

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• It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.

  Michael Kors

  Coffee, Tired, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

  Ice T

  Dozen, Cop, Schwarzenegger

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.

  KRS-One

  Fighting, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.

  Charlie Campbell

  Perfect, Scrutiny, Explanation

  Charlie Campbell (2012). “Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People”, p.8, The Overlook Press

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• The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go.

  Henri Nouwen

  Art, Dark, Light

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.

  Joe Dumars

  Night, Thinking, Hands

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• Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

  Mason Cooley

  Worry, Action, Complaints

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• You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.

  Mac DeMarco

  Rocks, Talking, Years

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• One day I was complaining to Bill Coltrin about what I thought was an unfair article about our team. I was going to call the writer and complain to him. Bill told me, "If you plan to stay in this business (coaching), you need to realize a couple of things about the press. One, whatever is written, it will probably be forgotten in two or three days by the public; and two, if you complain or make an enemy of the writer, just remember you may have your 'day in the sun,' but he/she is going to press 365 days a year." I have never forgotten that.

  LaVell Edwards

  Couple, Team, Remember You

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records. Most of the people making these records do it because it is a business, and if someone says, "You can't do this", they won't complain. They'll just keep making records, but they'll get blander and blander. There'll still be rock and roll, but compared to what it really could be or ought to be, I don't think it'll be all that terrific.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Rocks

  Source: afka.net

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• I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

  Carrie Fisher

  Girlfriend, Stuff, Periods

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

  Kofi Annan

  School, Punishment, Done

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• I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.

  Nat Hentoff

  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for a change. After a while, they started complaining, although more secure, they also become more dependent and rule-bound.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Order, People, Liberty

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.

  Michael Bloomberg

  War, Japan, Long

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I left small businesses a little while ago and they were all complaining that Obamacare is putting them out of business. Not only the regulations, which are a disaster and the taxes, but Obamacare is putting them out of business.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Littles, Regulation

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Auditors, Pay

  Source: www.gov.za

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• People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that "if only we could have two political parties that presented a choice, but there were all these liberal Republicans and there were all these southern Democrats who are conservative so people just don't have a clear choice."

  William Kristol

  Party, School, Two

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.

  Ike Barinholtz

  Cameras, Mentality

  "Dork and Mindy: Chicagoan Ike Barinholtz ready to throw his weight around on new project". Interview with Nina Metz, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, "Ah, you know, it's Wednesday." But I'm blessed. I love my work.

  John Darnielle

  Jobs, Blessed, Moments

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.

  Donald Trump

  Fall, Election Results, Shapes

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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