Dangerous Quotes - Page 17

• Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

  John Cusack

  Taken, Looks, Kitsch

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• The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1952, Delphi Classics

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• People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

  John Brunner

  Hate, People, Term

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.207, Macmillan

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• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Ideas, Drunk

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.197, Vintage

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• I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

  Brian May

  Queens, Thinking, Band

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• Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

  Glenn Close

  Men, Pay, Dangerous Things

  "Fictional character: Patty Hewes". TV Series "Damages" ("And My Paralyzing Fear of Death", 2007), www.imdb.com. 2007–2012.

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• If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

  David Mamet

  Government, Arms, Criminals

  "David Mamet’s Newsweek Eruption: Another Reason We Need Solid Reporting on Guns" by Paul Raeburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2013.

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• Life is weird, great and dangerous.

  Henry Rollins

  Life Is

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• Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it could be argued that ignorance is better than unguided intelligence, for the most dangerous people are those who have knowledge without a moral framework.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Book, Ignorance, People

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Positive Thinking, Lost Ones

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• Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Medicine, Cnn

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• I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technique, Doctrine, Needs

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• I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Ideas, Sin

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• We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.

  Bill Maher

  Talking, Issues, People

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• I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

  Cathy Freeman

  Running, Share, Turns

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• You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.

  Demetri Martin

  Glasses, Balls, Way

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2012

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• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Cutting, Years

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• That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.

  Richard Jeni

  People, Guy, Looks

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• A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an optimist. I'm like, well, maybe it's making my child fireproof.

  Greg Giraldo

  Children, Fire, Wife

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• It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

  Clement Attlee

  Play, Budgets

  Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

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• This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Interesting, Actors, World

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• ...was treading on dangerous water there... 
  (on Phil Neville)

  Ron Atkinson

  Water, England, Treading

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• I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

  Rudolf Bing

  Thinking, Years, Opera

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