Crap Quotes - Page 24

• I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.

  Nora Roberts

  Nice, Fate, Cutting

  "Interlude In Death". Book by Nora Roberts, August 2001.

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• When you're hungry for success, don't let anyone feed you crap about slowing down.

  Marie Forleo

  Hungry For Success, Slow Down, Slowing

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• Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

  Paul Samuelson

  Giving Up, Self Confidence, Thinking

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• While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Girl, Years, Superstar

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• It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.

  Colleen Hoover

  Fate, Years, Rest Of Your Life

  Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

  Pat Pattison

  Writing, Growing, Chance

  Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.291, Writer's Digest Books

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• I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Agony

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.

  Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

  Trying, Musician, Great Music

  "Exclusive Interview: Jim “Dandy” Mangrum Southern Rock Pioneer with Black Oak Arkansas". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. December 5, 2012.

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• It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

  Eric Bolling

  People, Feelings, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think this market space, this modern world we're living in, one of its greatest failures is that it can only seem to describe a collective in terms of consumers or clients. It never sees an audience or a community as part of the process. And that's something I'm quite proud of, even if the music is crap.

  Herbert

  Thinking, Space, Community

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

  Kami Garcia

  Humorous, Toilets

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• The young look up to me as their feeder, said Alex. Well, they can go look for another trough. I'm through with this hogwash.Are liberal ideas hogwash?All ideas are hogwash, Jack.Don't you believe in anything anymore?Sure. I believe in God the Father of Nonsense, creator of Crap and Nonsense, is now and ever shall be Crap without end. Oh, oh, Jack, how we break our hearts trying to make sense of a world that's pure and utter crap. But if you ever come to where I am now, you'll be surprised and delighted to find out how little anything matters.You've begun to sound Christian, said Pocholo.

  Nick Joaquín

  Christian, Father, Believe

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• I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Writing, Important, Comedy

  "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.

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• For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

  Sampha

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Ruth Saxelby, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

  George Harrison

  Song, Doe, Demos

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• Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.

  Hakim

  Real, Believe, Dawn

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• I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.

  Charles de Lint

  Attitude, Writing, Character

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• However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

  David First

  Thinking, Mirrors, Ideas

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Hollywood

  "The Third Way: Combining Summer's New Suits & Sportswear". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2009.

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• Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Art, Stuff, Firsts

  "The Third Way: Combining Summer's New Suits & Sportswear". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2009.

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• The best of our best, without Jesus, looks like a pile of crap compared to Him.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Looks

  Matt Chandler, Jared C. Wilson (2013). “To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain”, p.92, David C Cook

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• Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we can, being as kind and loving to one another as possible, right now. It's a pretty good philosophy, no matter what one's religious beliefs or lack of them.

  Michael Dirda

  Religious, Philosophy, Matter

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Don't be evil is a load of crap.

  Steve Jobs

  Evil, Load

  "Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra Is ‘bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs (Update 2)" by John C Abell, www.wired.com. January 30, 2010.

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• Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Law, Thrive

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• President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

  John Updike

  Age, President, Lips

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