Cynical Quotes - Page 16

• I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

  Robert Redford

  Weekend, Cotton Candy, Way

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• It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

  Tom Petty

  Beautiful, Reality, Hands

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• With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

  Oliver Stone

  America, People, Television

  "Interview: Oliver & Sean Stone (Alexander Revisited)". Interview With Jeremy Smith, trouble.city. September 19, 2007.

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• In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

  Michael Shermer

  Principles, Curious, Closed Minded

  "What Is Skepticism, Anyway?" by Michael Shermer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

  Matt Smith

  "Matt Smith interview: lord of misrule" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2011.

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• The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Quality, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.170, Princeton University Press

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• One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing in the ability to engage the world in all of its myriad purposes, transformations, and incarnations.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Believe, Criticism

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief.

  Seymour Hersh

  Cutting, Loss, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Wall, Self, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

  Matt Taibbi

  Crazy, Effort, Hatred

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• Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

  Matt Taibbi

  Political, United States, Modern

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• George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

  Matt Taibbi

  Religious, Heart, Scary

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• I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

  Michel Gondry

  Nice, Thinking, Irony

  "How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

  Rick Perry

  America, People, Principles

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• The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Women, Giving

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.9, 谷月社

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• It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Silly, Stupid People, Stupidity

  "The Nine Satanic Sins". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1987.

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• My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.

  Tablo

  Heart, Self, Cold

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• Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

  Helen Fielding

  Valentine, Matter, Indifference

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

  Cory Doctorow

  Long, Negative, Looks

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.43, Macmillan

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• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  Michael Robotham

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Indifferent, Hardest, Loses

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• I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.90, Collector's Library

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• We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

  Geraldine Brooks

  War, Stupid, Intelligent

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.41, Penguin

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• It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

  Meg Cabot

  Depressing, Mean, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• My fear is that having been promised a revolution, Bernie Sanders supporters will become disgusted and cynical when Hillary Clinton and the establishment win yet again and the revolution doesn't happen.

  Kevin Drum

  Winning, Revolution, Clinton

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