Disturbing Quotes - Page 12

• I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

  Carol Gilligan

  Differences, Determined, Gender

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

  Janice Dickinson

  Ideas, Makeovers, Extremes

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

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• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

  Rachel Cusk

  Creativity, Ideas, Childhood

  "Can creative writing ever be taught?" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• One of the most disturbing things I heard was that women's issues weren't "hot." Which is so ironic, because women are constantly being judged on some "hot" level. The conversation is not hot enough for them to do anything about. We have to make it hot, make them feel the fire. Until then, a lot of them aren't going to do anything.

  Patricia Arquette

  Fire, Issues, Ironic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in the arms race where a lot of good work was done, this has now come to an end. For what we are seeing at the present time are new developments in anti-missile weaponry, drones, and so on.

  Paul Virilio

  Race, Years, Drones

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

  Whit Stillman

  Trying, Mediums

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

  David Cronenberg

  Forever, Alive, World

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.

  Medea Benjamin

  Zero, Dark, Squad

  Source: progressive.org

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• With the Arab Spring, came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation, and opportunity for greater participation on the part of women in public life, and in economic life in the Middle East. But instead, we've seen in nation after nation, a number of disturbing events.

  Mitt Romney

  Spring, Opportunity, Numbers

  Source: genius.com

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• If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people, mainly Communists, were killed by General Suharto, who was backed by the CIA, in South Africa, in the US Civil Rights Movement - or even now, it's very disturbing. They have always worked closely with the US State Department.

  Arundhati Roy

  Latin, America, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.

  Tom Hiddleston

  World, Becoming, Moments

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself. This sort of alt-right movement is very disturbing.

  Donna Brazile

  Distance, People, Movement

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby.

  Venetian Snares

  Mom, Baby, Believe

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• Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Emotion, States

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• As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

  Julia Cameron

  Holiday, Disruption, Tempo

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Christ, Poor, Disguise

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• Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

  Noto

  Stronger, Sound, Would Be

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• His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

  Keir Starmer

  Believe, Merit, Offensive

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• When we combine acceptance with self-responsibility we can then see that whenever we are in a painful or disturbing situation we have two choices: We can work compassionately to bring something positive to the situation or leave. However, the key is the mental stance that we make the choice from, and thus the first step is always accepting the moment without resistance.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Keys

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Men, Yelling

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing to a lot of people. So, I think there's a lot of value that print designers have.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

  Bassem Youssef

  Insulting, Islam, Rumor

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.

  Mark Haddon

  Memories, Swimming, Past

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• When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Lasts, Six, Twenties

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Donald Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of president he'd be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dog, Offering, President

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