Jerk Quotes - Page 6

• One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions, and artistic instincts and strip down the process to more of a guttural level, and make something that wasn't so manicured and polished; wasn't quite so developed and supported, and just run wild with it and see what happens with it.

  David Gordon Green

  Running, Decision, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.

  Eric Bolling

  Risk, Narcissist, Happens

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Understanding, Over You

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.166, Penguin

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• As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk.

  Terrell Owens

  Guy, Kind, Figures

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• How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!

  Bill Crawford

  People, Giving, Chains

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• A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

  Matt Berninger

  Opposites, Grace, Loser

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• My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Watches, Knees, Gains

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think I am very easy to work for because everything has to be just right or we don't put it out. But at the same time, all the people that work for me have a "no asshole" rule, if you're a jerk you're fired, so it's a great team and a lot of skillful people at the top of the game, anybody from management to the agents to the publicists to the day-to-day website stuff and it's just a great team.

  Jeff Dunham

  Team, Thinking, Games

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mother, Mirrors, Guy

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• Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

  Jimmy Wales

  Fighting, People, Politics

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• A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall.

  Demetri Martin

  Beautiful, Fall, Motorcycle

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• I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will always get lots of people thinking you're a jerk. But there are people who appreciate total honesty and questioning of the conformities in our society, and I'm heroic to those people. And I should be. It's an indictment of the rest of society who doesn't get that.

  Bill Maher

  Honesty, Thinking, Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Television, Want, Kind

  "A chat with Jim Gaffigan". Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you forget.

  Shelly Crane

  Kissing, Giving, First Kiss

  FaceBook post by Shelly Crane from Feb 08, 2013

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• My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

  Noah Baumbach

  Dad, Eye, Companion

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• When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

  Adrienne Rich

  Notebook, Prayer, Memories

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.

  Julio Cortazar

  Taken, Eye, Thinking

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.712, Everyman's Library

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• If you date, you will meet your share of weirdos and jerks. That is as sure as death and taxes.

  Greg Behrendt

  Dating, Share, Weirdo

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2007). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

  Patrick Stump

  Mean, Class, Mind

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

  Jim Jefferies

  Song, Sweet, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

  Douglas Hurd

  Knee Jerk Reactions, Knees, Sound

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

  David Letterman

  Disappointing, Admire

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• You know what I never get with the limo? The tinted windows. Is that so people don't see you? Yeah, what a better way not to have people notice you than taking a thirty foot Cadillac with a TV antenna and a uniformed driver. How discreet. Nobody cares who's in the limo. You see a limo go by, you know it's either some rich jerk or fifty prom kids with $1.75 each.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Feet, People

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• It's been kind of hard, I'm labeled as a jerk right now, you know what I mean? But I love it. I've been a jerk all my life. My momma loves this jerk. My kids love this jerk. I'm going to be a jerk in a good way, though. I'm going to be a jerk to the other teams and just go out there and play basketball. I can do that.

  Stephen Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Mean

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