Guilty Quotes - Page 33

• I'm not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads.

  Jesse Michaels

  Oil, Pasta, Salad

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• I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

  Robert Fisk

  War, World, Littles

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• I have since talked to some of my girlfriends sexual assault and found out that they had their own experiences that they never shared at the time. It was never talked about it. And I think it's because of that normal response - you feel badly, you feel responsible, you feel guilty, you feel like you did something wrong, you feel ashamed.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Normal

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

  Adam Young

  Weed, Memories, Eye

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• I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

  Anne Frank

  War, Believe, Men

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.164, Bantam

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• Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Media, Voice

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• . . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Son, Sacrifice

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• The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.

  Jay Leno

  Alaska, House, Done

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• I feel guilty sometimes. It may be that innate English nature - the need to think that you must've done something wrong if you're a success. It's sometimes better if you can say: 'Okay, I'm a failure; now will you be my friend?'.

  Emily Lloyd

  Thinking, Needs, Done

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

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• There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wrath, Divine Justice

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.204

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• In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Innocence, Condemnation

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• The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat.

  Hooman Majd

  Military, War, Media

  "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

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• People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

  Nicki Chapman

  Thinking, Shoes, Clothes

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life.

  Billy Collins

  Clever, Reading, Talking

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Military, War, School

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• I present the thing we're going to do as a simple starting point. They all know it's an art piece and that it's all going to be recorded. And I have never had an experience where one of these men tried to take advantage of the situation. If they were guilty of anything it was of being lonely. It was never that they were violent or dangerous.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lonely, Art, Simple

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Writing, Self, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity.

  Edan Lepucki

  Book, Thinking, Boston

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.

  R. Kelly

  Matter, Murder, Found

  "R. Kelly Talks Sexual Abuse as a Child, Aaliyah Relationship & Allegations With GQ". Interview with Adelle Platon, www.billboard.com. January 20, 2016.

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• So when I can, I try my best to meditate a little bit every day, and that helps a lot. I think that just taking a minute, or however long you can, and really acknowledging everything that you have. Acknowledging what you have, and at the same time, acknowledging what other folks don't have. And you know, you don't have to feel guilty about it, but definitely to feel grateful is the first step in giving it back.

  Thao Nguyen

  Grateful, Thinking, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.

  Kevin Hart

  People, Trying, Ifs

  "Ice Cube And Kevin Hart Play A Hilarious Game Of 'Never Have I Ever'". Interview with Ellie Bate, www.buzzfeed.com. January 22, 2016.

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• Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Empowering, Live In The Moment, Sensual

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

  Naturi Naughton

  Silence, Meditation, Family And Friends

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do. It's not something you can write down as anything other than, "Wow, I can't believe I have this and I'm absolutely spoiled and entitled." On the other hand, I have one and I use it.

  Steve Ballmer

  Believe, Writing, Hands

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

  Steve Ballmer

  Workout, Crazy, Sleep

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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