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• Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sports, Fashion, Hero

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

  Emmylou Harris

  Country, Children, Patriotic

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• There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.

  Andrew Davidson

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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• I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.

  John Allen Paulos

  Uplifting, Science, Half

  John Allen Paulos (2013). “A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

  Mick Rock

  Thinking, People, Balance

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• I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Wall, Gun, Thinking

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

  Wilfred Owen

  Spring, Air, Tree

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.478, Delphi Classics

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• The trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Unhappy, Tricks

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• The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

  Jimmy Wales

  Real, Party, Struggle

  "The Birth of Wikipedia". Ted Talk, www.ted.com. 2005.

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• Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, People, Kind

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• If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

  Steve Carell

  Levels, Might, Know How

  "Steve Carell Says Comedy Has Become 'Uber-Cynical,' 'Borderline Mean'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

  Howard Stern

  Real, People, Feel Good

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• My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Family, Father, Heart

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• You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Unhappy

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• I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Strong, Independent

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• I ate too much and masturbated too recently, you know? It's bad to like jerk off and run out the door, 'cause you run into somebody. "Oh, she knows..." You got to take some time alone to process the shame.

  Louis C. K.

  Running, Thinking, Doors

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• Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could
  have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.

  Ian Shoales

  Play, Amadeus

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

  Sheldon Siegel

  Nice, People, Together

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• At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

  Kalisha Buckhanon

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Kalisha Buckhanon (2008). “Conception: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

  Joshua Ferris

  Heart, Poor Decisions, Broken

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• I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Hands, Opposites, Mind

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• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  Rachel Perry

  Real, Nice, Hair

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• All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Magic, Gone, Idiot

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• Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

  Reed Hastings

  Teamwork, Cost, Brilliant

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• Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.

  Esther Hicks

  Grief, Giving, Feelings

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