Gross Quotes - Page 6

• Why can't we talk about sex just to talk about it? Because it's fun and silly and gross and exciting and disturbing and confusing and totally hot, sometimes all at once.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Sex, Fun, Silly

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual and no corporation should be allowed to amass that kind of unlimited wealth, including bestselling writers like myself, who are showered with royalties.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Corporations, India

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• President Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open borders, and you know it better than anybody right here in Arizona. You know it.

  Donald Trump

  People, Safety, President

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech", www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2017.

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• Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down.

  Donald Trump

  Gdp, Gross Domestic Product, Percent

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories, and our jobs, as they flee to Mexico, China and other countries all around the world. Our just-announced job numbers are anemic. Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down. Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Gdp

  Trump's campaign rally in West Palm Beach, FL, October 13, 2016.

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• Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

  Winona Ryder

  Gun, Good Movie, Ems

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Country, Running, Uncles

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.

  James M. Buchanan

  Country, America, Government

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out of pure ignorance, and I think it's too easy. And it plays into cliches about, you know, elitist liberals to say, oh, these Trump voters - if they knew more, they would do better. And it's like, well, maybe they would do better if we had a legitimate set of policies in place that doesn't encourage the kind of gross radicalization that has happened under the Trump candidacy. So for me, it's all about developing a richer conversation.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Ignorance, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt" or not. The Spanish anarchists opposed conscription during the civil war in Spain as a gross expropriation of property, the most precious property that we have, our own physical beings themselves.

  Murray Bookchin

  War, People, Spain

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he decided that his design was not being followed - which was a gross violation, by the way, of private property rights, because the building was his.

  Murray Bookchin

  Rights, Design, Way

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Defense, Tough

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.

  Lucas Hedges

  Growing Up, Opposites, Giving

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's like being a stand-up comedian is what leads to being a talk-show host. That life is not cut out for a woman, being on the road at these disgusting hotels. What girls want to do that? Gross guys want to do that. I think that the dearth in female comics is just the nature of the business, but there certainly isn't a dearth anymore, so I think it's just silly.

  Chelsea Handler

  Girl, Silly, Cutting

  Source: variety.com

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• It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Civilization, Midst, Advantage

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• If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Looks, Saving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• This is what happens to man in death. He puts off his overcoat, or what we call the physical, the gross body, and he is clothed in what, for the time being, I would call the astral body. The man continues to be the same, even as I would continue to be the same, if I took off this shawl. I would then appear to you in my shirt, but I would continue to be the same man.

  Dada Vaswani

  Men, Body, Shirts

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• That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Self, Complacency

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• I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.

  Barbra Streisand

  Kind

  "Barbra in One Take". Interview with Sean Mitchell, articles.latimes.com. November 07, 1996.

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• Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Coffee, Taken, Party

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1455, Delphi Classics

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• A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

  Grover Cleveland

  Men, Honor, Citizens

  "A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897". Book by James D. Richardson, 1896-1899.

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• The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.

  Tulku Thondup

  Light, Air, Blue

  Tulku Thondup (2001). “Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Selfish, Reflection, Men

  Hippolyte Taine (1904). “History of English literature”

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• The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Growth, Doe, Four

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Fernando J. Corbato, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 34, Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Selfish, Passion, Pride

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