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• My theory on Jenks: The guys look really good from afar, but once they come up to our table they are jacked hideous. It reminds me of the aquarium next door to Jenks, where it's just good to look. The moment you tap on the glass and make them come to you, it just freaks you out.

  JWoww

  Glasses, Doors, Aquariums

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• the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Struggle, Heart, Religion

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”

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• It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Lying, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.158, Penguin

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• If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Blood, Heaven

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

  William Gibson

  Style, Toronto, Too Much

  Source: craphound.com

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• There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their world. Nothing visible or capable of explanation. In fact, I'd never seen a whale. When I first witnessed their terrible death agony, I couldn't get the picture of a whale being harpooned out of my mind. It was a hideous mind-blowing sight. That day I recognised a purpose on the journey of my life.

  Sue Arnold

  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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• In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.

  Barbara Hulanicki

  Drawing, Creative, Miami

  "Biba Lives". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.

  Nan Goldin

  Shopping, Feelings, Freak

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• I believe sans serif typefaces - today upheld as models of neutrality and legibility - were called "Grotesques" in the 19th century because people thought they were hideous. But now we're used to them.

  Michael Bierut

  Believe, People, Neutrality

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked on in college. A friend of mine asked me to do a stage reading of that book and I was just completely blown away because, at that point, I was like, 'Acting's having fun with your friends and making people laugh.'

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Book, Men

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• The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Delight, Mass, Bravo

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Night, Men

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.78

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• You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star.

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Stars, Love You

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wrinkles, Together, Made

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• Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Sleep, Political

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.93

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• When they've shut down, you get more nervous. They react to that, and it's just this hideous shame spiral. Although sometimes that can be some good train-wreck TV. That's another reason it's definitely difficult - when you are just not connecting, and it's there for the world to see.

  Jancee Dunn

  Train Wrecks, World, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Laughing, Vices

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.221, Penguin

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• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Devil, Doe, Would Be

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• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

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• Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Exercise, Rights

  "First State of the Union Address" by Calvin Coolidge, 1923.

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• I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one flies regularly anymore but fugly, bland businessmen, and hideous families with no-neck monsters for children.

  Vaginal Davis

  Children, Men, Monsters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is a hideous thing.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life Is

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know why people don't paint more warthogs. Warthogs are fantastic. They have the most marvelous faces, like cracked mud with tusks. And the eyelashes! Like many otherwise hideous animals, they have truly spectacular eyelashes. But nooo, it's always the charismatic mammals, like foxes and wolves and tigers. Have you ever smelled a fox? Believe me, the warthog produces a light, airy fragrance suitable for the home or office compared to a fox. Um. What was I saying again?

  Ursula Vernon

  Believe, Home, Animal

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Eye, Angel

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