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• I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

  Jennifer Niven

  Towers, Looks, Bumps

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.

  Denis O'Hare

  Views, Blood, Community

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• Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

  Mel Gibson

  Fall, Doors, People

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• Will Young. He's a great white soul singer. But he was slightly disappointing when I met him - not that friendly. Perhaps he was having a bad day. I love Take That, they're terrific. Gary Barlow is so talented. I've always hated punk rock and I'm not mad about rapping, but then it's not really for my age group.

  Tony Blackburn

  Rap, Bad Day, White

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Memories, Book

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

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• Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.

  Daniel Craig

  Kids, Animal, Opposites

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Blessed, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Apolitical

  "Cate Blanchett talks to 7.30 about her new movie and marriage equality". "7.30" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. December 18, 2015.

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• Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just a little disappointing.

  Robert Englund

  Thinking, Titles, Littles

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Book, Greatest Fear, Reader

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• It's not going to do anything. And it really is disappointing because the president has an opportunity here to work with organizations like the NRA, who have actually done a lot of significant work when it comes to actually keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. Hillary Clinton can attack the NRA all she wants, the fact is that the NRA has a higher approval rating than Hillary Clinton does when it comes to trustworthiness, that's for sure.

  Katie Pavlich

  Gun, Opportunity, Approval Rating

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I hate to say stuff like this because everyone dreams about playing The Opry, everyone dreams about playing Gruene Hall, but I've always tried to not concentrate too hard on where I want to go because I know if I put too much stock into it, it would be pretty disappointing if I never got there.

  Cody Johnson

  Dream, Hate, Would Be

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• I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

  Alexis Taylor

  Sound, Records, Whole

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

  Robert Englund

  Thinking, Events, Stuff

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.

  Bradford Winters

  Leadership, Stay Positive, Focus

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• For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an age of cultural pluralism. And it is disappointing for just the reasons you say that not everyone has embraced his pluralistic vision.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Believe, Ethnicity, Diversity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

  Alan Green

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Pain, Long, Expectations

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Editing, Self, Kind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Amazon, Microsoft, Earning

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• Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.

  Dwane Casey

  Effort, Three, Tonight

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• A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

  Stephen Young

  Business, Successful, Winning

  Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.2, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.

  D. M. Turner

  Taken, Enough, Wells

  Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.

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• Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.

  Mary Norris

  Taken, Light, Race

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• It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is why it is all the more disappointing when a wealthy person plays to the crowd).

  Chris Cleave

  Play, Choices, Principles

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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