Cynical Quotes - Page 28

• It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Skills, Kind, Easy

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Creating, America

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Mba, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

  Spike Milligan

  Eggs, Politics, Down And

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• Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Media, Subjectivity, Pessimistic

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

  John Lennon

  Love Life, Government, Want

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• Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

  Dov Davidoff

  Liars, Criminals, Assuming

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 06, 2012

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• There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.

  Quentin Tarantino

  America, Ideas, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

  Drew Barrymore

  Grateful, Thinking, Optimism

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• This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.

  Ann Wilson

  Stress, Darkness, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Media, Talking

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• I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Talking, People

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• You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism.

  Stephen Colbert

  Selfish, Mean, Talking

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• Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

  John Callaway

  Thinking, Cynicism, Never Change

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• It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.

  Rob Payne

  Long, Yogurt, Tubs

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 33, 2003.

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• I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

  Ed Helms

  Persons, Jaded

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• The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

  Russell Jacoby

  Want, Outsiders, Bread

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• If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Being Happy, Breathing, Ifs

  "Utopia on the Hudson". Interview With Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.

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• My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

  Dave Allen

  Church, Twenties, Accepting

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• I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.

  Les Dawson

  Blood, Giving, Wife

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• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
  
  Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Being Yourself, Exercise, Heroism

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wise, Hell, Felt

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

  Joe Klein

  Journalism, Cynicism, Mediocre

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• A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  Understanding Philosophy ch. 3 (1973)

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

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