Dangerous Quotes - Page 40

• There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Media, Information

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• I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

  Mel Brooks

  Rocks

  "'I do bad taste with intelligence'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.

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• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Power, Alive, Flattery

  "Of Great Nobles". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

  Art Buchwald

  United States, Statistics, Buffalo

  Art Buchwald (1957). “The Brave Coward”

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• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Dangerous Things

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• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Writing, People

  "Writing in terms of pleasure". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.

  Tony Campolo

  Brother, Missionary, Might

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• Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

  Albert Camus

  Two, Long, Goal

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Passion, Dying

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

  Jimmy Carter

  Men, People, Goal

  Jimmy Carter (1982). “Keeping faith: memoirs of a president”

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Men, Criminals

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe, before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, Gay, People

  "Outing (And Why Gay Celebrities Need to Leave the Closet)" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

  Amy Chua

  Creativity, Kids, Independent

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• Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

  George Clooney

  Film, Fame, Enjoy

  "George Clooney on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.

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• I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Giving, Use

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• Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

  Mason Cooley

  Looks, Literature, Illness

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• I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

  Simon Cowell

  Jumping, Done, Thailand

  "'If you could kiss anyone in the world, who would it be?'". Interview with Francesca Gallio, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

  Bryan Cranston

  Why Not, Given, Circumstances

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• To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Horse, Hard Work, Buckets

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• Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

  Rachel Cusk

  Gratitude, Helping, Economy

  Rachel Cusk (2012). “Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation”, p.19, Faber & Faber

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• Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Taste, Eating, Pears

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.195, Penguin

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• Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.

  Claire Danes

  Voice, Used, Tricky

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• People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Clothes, People

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• American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

  Don DeLillo

  Reality, Bedtime, Margins

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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