Disappointing Quotes - Page 7

• In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality.

  Claudia Rankine

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

  Mirah

  Community, World, Born

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Once you learn the idea of what a good guy is, you want your dad to be a good guy, and when your dad lets you down and doesn't act like a good guy, it's disappointing and can make you angry as you see it happen, which is beautiful and very believable.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Beautiful, Dad, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.

  Charlie Day

  Rocks, Littles, Stage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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• To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

  Kingsley Amis

  Struggle, Writing, Risk

  Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

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• What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.

  Mark Danner

  Lying, Mean, Goal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

  Gillian Anderson

  Character, Different, Feels

  "The year of Gillian Anderson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 21, 2016.

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• That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

  Joshuah Bearman

  Stories, Realizing, Difficult

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint them. Even though was I was pretty committed to disappointing everybody else.

  Leigh Newman

  Brother, Teenage, Stupid

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

  Neko Case

  Jobs, People, Musician

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• I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

  Sarah Dessen

  Disappointment, Mean, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.136, Penguin

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• You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy.

  Alma Alexander

  Lonely, Love You, Ideas

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• I'll always remember the phrase of my husband: "Racism is never surprising, but it is always disappointing." Anytime I see it or I feel it, that quote comes back. This is something that has to be constantly talked about in order to be changed.

  Ashley Graham

  Husband, Racism, Remember

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Nice, Artist, One Day

  "Exclusive Interview: Sandra Bullock and Alfonso Cuarón Discuss Gravity". Press Conference, www.biogamergirl.com. October 8, 2013.

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• You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Comic Book, Used, Bits

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• Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?

  Niecy Nash

  Men, Faults, He Man

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• Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Art, Disappointment

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.863, Delphi Classics

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• Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

  Kevin Nealon

  People, Knack, Pleasers

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• Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Rights, Democracy, Election

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• You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to critical acclaim around the world. He won't put more then 5 or 10 percent computer imagery in his movies. It's disappointing to me. It's a silly choice that some studios made to move out of animation. It's part of the unfortuneate preconception that I think the public has going into see animation.

  Chris Wedge

  Silly, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Chess, Humour, Performances

  Fred Reinfeld (2012). “The Immortal Games of Capablanca”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but that has nothing to do with the fantasy image that goes along with it. You have so many people complaining, "It's not how it used to be." If you look for specific things and you don't find them anymore, that's disappointing. But that's just your disappointment, it has nothing to do with the city. I think it's a nice place-harsh at times, and so on, but beautiful nonetheless.

  Urs Fischer

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much about the Freudian theory of dreams; it's probably more interesting than your average hippie dream dictionary, but it's got to be a lot deeper than that. It can't all be about sex all the time, so I don't know if Freud is right either.

  Neko Case

  Dream, Hippie, Thinking

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

  Michele Bachmann

  Two, Issues, Way

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