Nasty Quotes - Page 23

• I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

  Ilie Nastase

  Bridges, Tennis, Devil

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• The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Average, Blind

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

  Russell Simmons

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Rushing

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2011). “Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All”, p.12, Penguin

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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Bosnians, British, Said

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

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• Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

  Tom Holt

  Funny, Childhood, Habit

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• Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

  Eva Figes

  Husband, Children, Father

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• I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

  Bill Bailey

  Disappointment, Chocolate, Despair

  "Bewilderness". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

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• It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

  Alfie Kohn

  Punishment, People, Age

  "Humiliating Children In Public: A New Parenting Trend?" by Lisa Belkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2012.

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• The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

  Robert Quine

  Funny, Song, Ugly

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• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Thinking, Matter, Knows

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

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• The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

  W. C. Fields

  Running, Dog, Special

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Energy, Sand

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• I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

  George Washington

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene.

  Daniel Massey

  Sorry, Scene, Ends

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• Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Nice, Portraits, Doe

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• I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

  Helen Suzman

  Receiving, Littles, Provocative

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• The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Country, Party, Small Numbers

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Arrogance, Democrat

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• [ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Thinking, Strange

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

  Mason Cooley

  Mean, Acceptance, Silence

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• The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

  Dick Cavett

  Eye, Administration, Cop

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• I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

  John Mellencamp

  Dirty, Fighting, Naughty

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• I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

  Cat Deeley

  Pieces, Weight, Able

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• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hero, Dirty, Naughty

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• "Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Crazy, Men

  "Joan Baez finds her seat among quartet of greats". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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