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• I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

  Jerry Springer

  Dark, People, Guy

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• Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

  Jack Kerouac

  Home, Writing, Native Language

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• I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.

  James Lileks

  Eye, Dark, Feelings

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• The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so incalculably great that the argument of these critics, systematically pursued, establishes not their conclusion but its reverse: to refrain from using animals in biomedical research is, on utilitarian grounds, morally wrong.

  Carl Cohen

  Animal, Quality, Research

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• I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Artist, Car, Etc

  "Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein takes your questions". live.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Arena, Hopeless

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• I'm obsessed with horrible movies.

  Kreayshawn

  Obsessed

  "Hear the Latest from Kreayshawn, a Tattooed, Potty-Mouthed Hip-Hop Artist With a Soft Spot for the Spice Girls" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

  Alfred de Musset

  Dream, Self, Ridiculous

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.45, tredition

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• I would love to do both but I think I believe there's a thing as overexposure and I think people will get sick of me real quick. I kind of basically looked at it as my retirement plan now. That's definitely something I can do when I'm not wrestling anymore. And believe it or not - this sounds horrible - but it was really easy for me. I would really love to do both. I'd love to wrestle and do commentary, I think that would be awesome.

  CM Punk

  Retirement, Real, Believe

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• I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.

  Bob Arum

  Boxing, Decision, Rematches

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• In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

  Jorge Cruise

  Our World, Black, Weight

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• The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

  E. B. White

  Country, War, Bombs

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• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  Walker Percy

  Time, Lying, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

  Steve Albini

  Band, Insult, Producers

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• The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Long, Honestly

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

  Jean Rostand

  Past, Government, Color

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• Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Men, Vices

  "Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude".

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• I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

  Paula Poundstone

  Beautiful, Memories, Talking

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• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Scare, Paper

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.28, Counterpoint

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• People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

  David Chase

  People, Needs, Degradation

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

  Leon Panetta

  Directors, Goes On, World

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Peter Abelard

  Son, Compassion, Two

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• ...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

  Irving Stone

  Art, Eye, Suspense

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

  Jenny Eclair

  People, Feelings, Guts

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