Distasteful Quotes - Page 2

• We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

  Learned Hand

  Ideas, Political, Succeed

  "The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses".

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• I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically occurs in the election season I find to be distasteful. But for those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do.

  Ron Paul

  Jesus, Talking, Political

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• Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

  Rollo May

  Teacher, Reality, Anxiety

  Rollo May Ph.D. (2015). “The Meaning Of Anxiety”, p.66, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Issues, Politician

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

  Michael Faraday

  Distance, Science, Exercise

  Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.483

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• Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Adjectives, Found

  Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

  Jules Verne

  Matter, Obvious, Evasion

  Jules Verne (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, p.216, My Ebook Publishing House

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• People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member is searching for his or her own "personal space" and they expect the poet to be a sort of avatar of the private life. But that sort of representation is distasteful to me. Asking a poet to represent the personal life is, paradoxically, to turn the poet into something other than a person.

  Rae Armantrout

  Long, People, Poet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

  Danny Brown

  Cities, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

  John Currin

  Artist, Ideas, Excited

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just implore local music fans to get out on a regular basis to support the local bands that you like. If you find what the corporate record industry shovels out as distasteful, prove that there's a demand for something different and better. I don't expect everyone else to do the two or three nights a week that I did at my peak, but two or three shows a month isn't much of a burden for true music fans!

  Larry Howes

  Night, Two, Support

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• The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Family, Children, Kids

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• To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

  Chris Prentiss

  Giving Up, People, Change For The Better

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.108, BookBaby

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• Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Way

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• Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

  George Eliot

  Past, Years, Desire

  George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

  Joyce Maynard

  Writing, People, Ugly

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• I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

  Mick Jagger

  Stars, Thinking, Important

  "The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.jannswenner.com. December 14, 1995.

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• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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• As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.

  Angela Lansbury

  Kids, Player, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Dog, Character

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• I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fun, People, Littles

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His comment on pornography was, "I may not be able to define it but I know it when I see it." That's not law. That's definitely not law. Really, this trial should have been an organized crime trial. About murder and tax evasion and brutalizing people. Not about obscenity.

  Harry Reems

  People, Judging, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

  Joss Whedon

  Tv Shows, Tabloids, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. But other people fell in love with him as a reality star. So does that mean that the entertainment industry is doing something wrong? I think reality TV answered that question a long time ago: Yes, it's doing something terribly wrong. But there's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.

  Joss Whedon

  Stars, Mean, Thinking

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• The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Leader, Novas

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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