Curse Quotes - Page 34

• The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

  Len Wein

  Book, Worry, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them who persecute me, even though it "automatically" tends to strike and wound those who have wounded me. I submit my legs to God as instruments of righteousness when I engage them in physical labor as service, perhaps carrying a burden the "second mile" for someone whom I would rather let my legs kick. I submit my body to righteousness when I do my good deeds without letting them be known, though my whole frame cries out to strut and crow.

  Dallas Willard

  Crow, Body, Legs

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• Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Civilization, Prerogative

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

  Kid Rock

  Thinking, Would Be, Scared

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Sweat, Soldier, Toil

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• India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development.

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Team, India

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• Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

  Neil Postman

  Teacher, Mind, Enemy

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.116, Vintage

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• The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

  John Mason Brown

  Book, Kids, Home

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• When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

  Demetri Martin

  Play, Buttons, Toes

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2012

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• I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.

  Ray Romano

  Hate, Golf, Feelings

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• One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

  Jane Birkin

  Thinking, Thanks, Used

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• You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.

  Artie Lange

  Girl, Father, Two

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• I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.

  Gilles Peress

  Memories, Thinking, Collective Memory

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Media, Sheep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Blessing, Life Is

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.

  Xosha Roquemore

  I Can, Reactionaries

  "The Mindy Project’s Xosha Roquemore: Just Being Herself". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dirty, Thinking, Conan

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Done, Kind

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.

  Ted Cruz

  Colleagues

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

  Scott McClanahan

  World, Realizing, Modern

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Soccer, Running, Football

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• From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

  Charles Chilton Moore

  Atheism, Earth, Has Beens

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• I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Hard Work, Blessing, Secret

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• I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!

  Scott Snyder

  Fighting, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Every place has its own challenges. In Canada, we have blessings like grants, but we also have curses in the sense that when you start to do more urban classified music, we no longer have a single urban radio station left.

  Kreesha Turner

  Blessing, Challenges, Radio

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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