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• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Long, People

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• I have a nice bookshelf in my office, but not my house. I'm crass, but not that crass.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Nice, Office, House

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• I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Home, Cutting, Boys

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• Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Humanity, Venture, Horror

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

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• What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mirrors, Musical, Everyday

  Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

  Dean Norris

  Military, Nice, Guy

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

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• Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t even ask it.” Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman‟s arrogant tone. “I need you in the swamp.” Silence answered him. "We have a situation." “Where do you need me?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Silence, Humanity

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• Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

  William Regal

  Gangsta, Boys, Wwe

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• We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

  Jonathon Porritt

  Moving, Needs, Materialism

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• Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

  John Larroquette

  Self, Way, Stranger

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• Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

  Christopher

  Expression, Moments, Killing

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• No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

  Karen Tei Yamashita

  Imagination, Cheesy, Fascination

  Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

  Mike Tyson

  Neanderthals, Idiot, Crude

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• When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Real, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

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• Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

  Leonard Woolf

  Stupidity, Letters, Faces

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• Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

  Andrew Weil

  Attitude, Believe, Garden

  "One Simple Resolution: Gardening" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum could quickly put a stop to such crass rabble-rousing, as it should soon become clear that the UK was better off inside the EU - economically, socially and in foreign policy terms.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Opportunity, Europe, Missing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Real, People, Ignorant

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• I don't see anything that could happen that could turn Never Trumpers into Trumper voters. They're two dug in on the whole concept that Trump is not even a human being in the realm of politics. That Trump is just the worst guy ever to want to be in politics. He's just repulsive, he's repugnant, he's crass, he's all these things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Two, Guy, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Girl, Real, Character

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

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• I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sex, Book, Destiny

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

  David L. Bazelon

  Sight, Bags, Citizens

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• Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Real, Believe

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