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• I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Teacher, Silly, Voice

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• You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

  Penn Jillette

  Stupid, Self, Self Destructive

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  People, Trying, Tears

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

  Martha Ostenso

  Idols, Religion, Thorns

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• It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

  E.W. Jackson

  Birth Defects, Principles, Sin

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• Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Anger, Emotional, Blow

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• According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Passion, Dust, Wind

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• Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Self, Remember, Forget

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• We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

  Erich Fromm

  Lonely, People, Unhappy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Familiarity

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• Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

  Bill Vaughan

  Prejudice, Cures, Commerce

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• There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

  Bob Herbert

  Country, Violence, Lovers

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• I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

  Chuck Connors

  Growing Up, Believe, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Money, New York, Children

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Taken, California, San Francisco

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• We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, America, Debt

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Law, People

  "15 Questions with Grover G. Norquist". Interview with Rebecca F. Elliott, www.thecrimson.com. November 18, 2010.

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• There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

  Axl Rose

  Self, Going For It, Cost

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• When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.

  Russell Banks

  Frustration, Men, Sight

  Russell Banks (1986). “Trailerpark”

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• Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

  Roger Housden

  Energy, India, Example

  Roger Housden (1996). “Travels Through Sacred India”, Thorsons Pub

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• Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Rap, People, Soul

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• It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.

  Anne Bishop

  Ambition, Responsibility, Tears

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.372, Penguin

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• I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.

  Seth Rogen

  Children, Dirty, Thinking

  "Seth Rogen's B.O.B. Returns in Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 26, 2009.

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• It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Thinking, Self

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Love You, Romantic Love

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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