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• I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, People, Listening

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  John Milton

  Grief, Loss, Dark

  John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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• Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

  Enoch Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Media

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• A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Envy, Risen

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.2

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• Good weather all the week, but come the weekend the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot they complain, too cold they complain, and when it's just right, they're watching TV.

  Rita Rudner

  Weekend, Weather, Tvs

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• I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.486

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• Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Beautiful, Leaving, Patient

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• Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?

  Bob Hope

  America, Support, Movement

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• The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

  Chris Daughtry

  Song, Night, Wind

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• I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.

  Jennifer Garner

  Beautiful, Jobs, Want

  "Jennifer Garner interview: Still the girl next door". Interview with Stephen Whitty, www.nj.com. August 12, 2012.

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• I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling, who don't have the financial means, who don't have the support, and so many people are single raising children - that's hard.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Struggle, Mean

  "Angelina Jolie Talks Maleficent". Interview with Brent Simon, www.shockya.com. June 2, 2014.

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• It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good.

  Demi Moore

  People, Working Together, Sycophants

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• I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Rebel, Way, Old Fashioned

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• Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

  Stephen Colbert

  Patriotic, Exercise, Long

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2012

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• If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

  Stephen Colbert

  Confused, Home, Men

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2012

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• I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Joy, Able, Film

  "17 Questions With Jean-Claude Van Damme". Interview with Bertan Budak, www.askmen.com.

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• Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

  Cee Lo Green

  People, Done, Bathroom

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

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• On the Internet, all those same guys that are complaining I made a change are completely changing the movie. I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it.’

  George Lucas

  Names, Guy, Needs

  "George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits". Interview with Bryan Curtis, www.nytimes.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

  Jason Clarke

  Roles, Way, I Can

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

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• I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

  Buster Keaton

  Sorry, Hard Work, Mean

  Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

  Elton John

  Boring, Leaving Me, Mines

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• Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Fighting, Bigs

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• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

  David Niven

  Two, Clothes, Faces

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

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• In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Top Gear, Factories

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• Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Movie, People, Enough Time

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