Complaining Quotes - Page 20

• They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Player, Presses

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• If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, “Hey, can I have that?

  Sophia Amoruso

  Simple, Mind, Frustrated

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#Girlboss”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

  Alan Redpath

  Mean, Self, Hands

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• You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.

  Paul Orfalea

  Opportunity, Looks, Problem

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• Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

  Donald A. Norman

  Confusion, Forget, Complexity

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.4, MIT Press

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

  Justina Chen

  Broken, Accepting What Is, Action

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• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Literature, Bores

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• Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

  Ajahn Brahm

  Faults, Findings, Solutions

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• You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.

  Zach Braff

  Play, Careers, Black

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• You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

  Zach Braff

  People, Black, Plantations

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• Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, Garden, People

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• The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Faith, Wisdom, Religious

  "Arpilei Tohar" by Abraham Isaac Kook, (p. 2), 1914.

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• We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

  Rob Delaney

  Years, Space, People

  Rob Delaney (2013). “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.
  The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

  Guy Finley

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 21, 2016

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• Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, People, Boredom

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

  Clarence Thomas

  Uncles, Years, Complaints

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• I can't get no respect.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  No Respect, Complaints, I Can

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• If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

  Christian Slater

  Moving, Cutting, Eyebrows

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

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• The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Years, Truth Is, Made

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• If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Hate, Believe, Complaints

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• Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

  Sharon Stone

  Dancing, Pedestal, Dirt

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

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• There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.

  Bruce Willis

  Country, Stars, Thinking

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