Horrible Quotes - Page 31

• Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

  Patrick Pearse

  Blood, Finals, Slavery

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• Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Running, Poison, Looks

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

  Ben Elton

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Ben Elton applauds 'vibrant' standup comedy scene" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

  Rutger Hauer

  Thinking, Hands, Hysteria

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• Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Say Anything, Negative, Christianity

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

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• I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

  Kim Carnes

  Writing

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• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  Ed Balls

  Running, War, Men

  "Ed Miliband: Labour's catastrophic loss of trust over Iraq" by Patrick Wintour and Allegra Stratton, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.

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• I still have horrible luck with girls.

  Jonathan Bennett

  Girl, Luck, Stills

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

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• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.

  Lance Burton

  Mistake, Phones, Waiting

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• I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.

  Melanie Brown

  Art, Two, Sound

  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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• Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

  Tammy Bruce

  Running, People, Effort

  "Tuesday's Tea Party revolution". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

  Chris Colfer

  Auditions

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• I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like "I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus."

  Eliza Coupe

  Teacher, Kids, Math

  "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ Interview, www.ucbcomedy.com. February 2012.

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• I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.

  Eliza Coupe

  School, Mean, Hockey

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

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• I tell the most horrible jokes.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Jokes

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

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• I'm a horrible public speaker.

  Bill Condon

  Speakers

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• I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

  Billy Campbell

  Politician, Enjoy

  Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com.

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• To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

  Ben Affleck

  Ideas, Would Be, Answers

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Care

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• But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

  Eric Avery

  Cost, Stuff, Great Things

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• The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

  Jack Abbott

  Moving, Passion, Mind

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Ordinary, Rakes, Common

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• Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Delhi, Knows

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• I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

  Charlie Day

  New York, Boss, Lines

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