Destructive Quotes - Page 34

• I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

  Leslye Headland

  Honest, Being Honest

  "Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie & Leslye Headland Talk ‘Sleeping With Other People,’ Sex, Indie Films And More". Interview with Ken Guidry, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

  Catherine Wilson

  Compassion, Evil, Abuse

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

  Peter Stone

  Rehearsal, Scripts, Periods

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political leanings of anyone who tries to make that case - is a load of self-justifying, destructive horseshit.

  Viggo Mortensen

  White, Self, Political

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Wall, Thinking, Streets

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

  Ralph Nader

  Want, Energy, Climate

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• As painful and destructive as they are, the hateful comments allow us to map the underlying beliefs of many people in a way we've never been able to before. It's almost as if all of the negativity and misogyny needs to come to the surface so we can fully understand what it is, and how deep it goes, before we can begin to shift it. Of course, I wish it weren't there.

  Monica Lewinsky

  People, Negativity, Wish

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We all have a dark side but we keep it in its place because it's destructive. And Donald Trump has said, no, no, bring it out because that's the energy we need in order to reverse all these horrible things that have been happening in America.

  George Packer

  Dark, Order, America

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2016.

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• Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.

  David Krieger

  Age, Bombs, Trump

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rip, America, Want

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• Society becomes very destructive.

  Ai Weiwei

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it's still a belief system that limits you.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Issues, Different, Patterns

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• I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Important, Addresses

  Source: time.com

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• Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Self, Feelings, Too Much

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

  Nat Hentoff

  Thinking, Barack, Areas

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.

  Nat Hentoff

  College, Organization, Numbers

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to financialized businesses that do not invest in the areas that will lead to future growth or the invention of useful new products.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Running, Ideas, Growth

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Believe, Simple

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Fishing, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, War, Thinking

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.

  Judith Butler

  Christian, Two, Evil

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, Media, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Progress, Rebel

  Source: bitesizecliftbar.tumblr.com

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• As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.

  George Takei

  Queens, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: progressive.org

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