Hated Quotes - Page 31

• No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Children, Father

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.173

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• A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, People, Forgiving

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.144, Penguin

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• The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Class, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.74, Penguin

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• Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kindness, Thinking, Hands

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• Though it sold very well, I hated "The Edge."

  Shelley Berman

  Wells, Edges

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

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• I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

  Robert Adams

  Taking Pictures, Glorious

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• People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

  David Chase

  Hate, People, Television

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• He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

  Shang Yang

  Independent, Pride, Extraordinary Person

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• As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

  Bernie Siegel

  Jobs, Work, Years

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• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Feelings, Wish

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• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

  Jack Dee

  Hurt, Fighting, People

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• Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a mixed experience. I hated them because they separated me from the dearest thing in the world-the struggle of my people for rebirth. At the same time, they were a blessing because I had what is so rare in this world-the opportunity of thinking about basic issues, the opportunity of examining afresh the beliefs I held.

  Sukarno

  Struggle, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Dream, Book, Office

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• What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

  George Grosz

  War, World, Firsts

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• I just hated to lose.

  Bjorn Borg

  Loses

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• I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Years, Way, Advertising

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• My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it.

  Brooke Burns

  Summer, Dark, Color

  "'Miss Guided' Brooke Burns spills secrets" by Shawna Malcom, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2008.

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• I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Teacher, School, Insulting

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

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• In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me.

  Melvin Burgess

  Book, Writing, Mail

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• My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

  Dave Attell

  Jobs, Thinking, Comedy

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• My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

  Diane Abbott

  Mother, Records, Unbearable

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• I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

  Tim Cook

  Hate

  "Apple and Samsung begin settlement talks" by Chris Nuttall, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.

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• My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

  Julie Chen

  Directors, News, Firsts

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• My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

  Lacey Chabert

  Dad, Really Short, My Family

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

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• I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

  Simon Callow

  Growing Up, Sunday, Down And

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