Nonsense Quotes - Page 14

• I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone who's not a surfer. The sensation is the thing. And it's tough to describe without resorting to clichés or mystical nonsense.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

  Mark Dever

  Ideas, Differences, People

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Bill Clinton persuaded some people that he was really a civilized character and his Administration had the best interests of humanity at heart. These days we don't have to put up with that nonsense. It's very clear that the George W. Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

  John Pilger

  Heart, Character, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these journals, these memoirs - "Surely our leaders will stop this nonsense. Surely someone will take on these thugs. Surely the pendulum will swing back." Everyone was sitting at home going, "Well, they haven't come for me. This is crazy, but surely someone's going to take care of it." We all have to take care of it.

  Naomi Wolf

  Crazy, Home, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Giving Up, Rain, Years

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• What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.

  John Lydon

  Art, Want, Kind

  Source: www.axs.com

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• In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.

  Kevin Gutzman

  War, Commitment, Russia

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• There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, School, Two

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• We are all so immersed in our own technology bubbles that we're ignoring so many important things. We're all online arguing over nuance and nonsense, and everybody's so incensed and upset about things that ultimately mean nothing while we are destroying our environment. While we're racing towards Armageddon, we're all online arguing about what Beyonce said at some award.

  Rick Remender

  Mean, Technology, Awards

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me" - more like identification. Identity is one of those nonsense words: it's been used so much it doesn't mean anything. As individuals, we don't want to stay the same; identity means sameness, and we don't want to be the same, we want to keep changing, we want to grow, we want to become something else. We want to evolve. So when people come to me, it's about resonance - it goes back to that word.

  Vijay Iyer

  Mean, People, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Before the bell you fellow your family's name. Carrying the belt doesn't change me as a person. But I want to represent myself well. Some people want to show off their belt - but I'm not into that nonsense. I am who I am with or without the belt.

  Anthony Joshua

  People, I Am Who I Am, Showing Off

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

  John Lydon

  Sea, Land, Wife

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• It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Mistake, Educational

  "Helen Keller: A Life". Book by Dorothy Herrmann, University of Chicago Press, p. 56, 1999.

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• It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

  Angela Merkel

  Unable To Change

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Crazy, Airports, Drive Me Crazy

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• Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

  George Jean Nathan

  People, Common Sense, Worry

  George Jean Nathan (1960). “The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre”

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• I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.

  Grover Norquist

  Running, Powerful, Commitment

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• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  Camille Paglia

  Intellectual, Style, Encounters

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• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

  Evita Peron

  Book, History, Use

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• Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

  Richard Pryor

  Hurt, Thinking, America

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• I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

  Josh Radnor

  Men, Thinking, Female

  "Josh Radnor on building onscreen building an onscreen Bildungsroman". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 4, 2011.

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• The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

  Josh Radnor

  Allergies, Kind, Feels

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

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• You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

  John C. Reilly

  Long, Hollywood, Kind

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

  Marat Safin

  Different, Want, Espn

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