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• Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Energy, Mass

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

  Alain de Botton

  Lying, Years, Year End

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Truth, People, Denial

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• Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

  Bill Vaughan

  Party, Invited

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• Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Lines, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

  Billy Eichner

  Sound, Actors, Outgoing

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• No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

  Nick Moran

  Character, Thinking, Play

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

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• On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Articles, Forgettable

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• Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

  David Tang

  I Love Him, Men, Thinking

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• How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Bombarded By, People, Bombarded

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• Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

  Edward Ruscha

  Clouds, Airports, Blue

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• The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Technology, People

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• Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Blessing, Men

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.148, Zondervan

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• Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

  Cheryl James

  Girl, Rap, Voice

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• I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Law, Wicked, Criminals

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• The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

  Dave Matthews

  Fighting, Ideas, Worry

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• When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

  Alex Garland

  Running, Beach, Believe

  "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2010.

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• It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.

  Charlaine Harris

  Years, Two Year Olds, Two

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.785, Penguin

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• The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Cliche, Decided

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.1689, Dell

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• I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

  Jim Butcher

  Ability

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Habit, Miles, Plus

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Writing, Love Is

  "The greatest Lemony Snicket quotes ever" by Heather Sandlin, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2015.

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• I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Bella Swan, Pretending

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October, 2005.

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