Nonsense Quotes - Page 27

• Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Nine

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• We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

  Marge Piercy

  Sex, School, Dumb

  Marge Piercy (2011). “Dance the Eagle to Sleep”, p.73, PM Press

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• To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense.

  Robbie Fowler

  Play, England, Motivated

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• We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.

  Ted Cruz

  Cnn, Looks, Bombs

  "'Atlantic' Article Explores How Obama Thinks About Terrorism". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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• I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said.

  Steve King

  Kings, Thinking, Higher Ground

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.

  James Alison

  Strong, Crazy, Gay

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I have a friend who swears by food combinations - have you heard of this nonsense? She's nuts. She's like, 'You know what? You should eat food combinations, and that way you can eat whatever you want. It's just the combinations of how you put the food together.' And then her examples are like, 'You wouldn't want to eat steak and potatoes together, but you could have, like, a lemon rind and raisin skins - not the whole raisin, take the skins and steam them.

  Brian Regan

  Nuts, Skins, Together

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• There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

  Frank Horvat

  Photography, Lying, Thinking

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• I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Photography, Art, College

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• There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After my next birthday, I will never again be the age I am right now. After midnight tonight, today will be part of history. Someday I'll be dying and I'll wish I'd done all the things I want to do now. Someday I'll be dead and I won't be able to do anything. But today, right now, I'm alive. And yet I'm writing nonsense on the back of my literature book. But I'm alive. And yet I'm just sitting here. But I'm alive.

  Ryan Miller

  Book, Writing, Wish

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• It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

  Gene Sharp

  War, People, Gains

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• Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Sacrifice, Two

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.241, Penguin

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• If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Cosmos, Literature

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The political nonsense of network television and the culture of a set and all the problems that that can create, I can take. I can't take betraying the truth of what I'm doing. It cuts to the absolute core of everything that I do in the craft, in this world that I live in.

  Richard Schiff

  Cutting, Political, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.

  Chris Martin

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Now the dictatorship or call it the 'Indonesian regime', fully consolidated its power... You see, the West told Indonesians, indirectly of course, that 'democracy' is when you have several or many political parties, and people vote at least once in a while. But it is total nonsense. Democracy is when you vote and your vote can actually totally change the course of your nation.

  Andre Vltchek

  Party, People, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• General Flynn said all the talk about the connections between Trump and his campaign in Russia are nonsense.

  Shannon Bream

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

  Harmony Korine

  Perfect, Kind, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think age is sometimes just a number. But it's a real joy. Young actors don't come with any of the baggage that we load ourselves up with. They're not worried about their profile, they're not worried about how good they look, or all the nonsense. They just tell the story and ask: "What happens in this scene?" Well, I'll do that then. And professionally it's good for you because it means that you're forced to do the same thing, and that's always a good thing.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.

  Stephen Dunn

  Feelings, Say Anything, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said and written about the so-called "New Economy." Some people said all economic laws have been overturned! Then all the problems developed. Corporations were heavily fined for illegalities. Many of their senior-level executives were indicted, convicted, and sent to prison.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Problem, Prison

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether it's here, or in Paris or Mexico or Spain or London or whatever, and say, "I want to do this, are you interested?" They'll answer the next day. With a movie, it's all, "Oh, I see this film as blah blah blah." They don't know what you're talking about, they don't care.

  John Malkovich

  Long, Care, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always ‘Lennox should react, not think’. But that’s nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.

  Lennox Lewis

  Winning, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with colleagues and students, and having to listen to all that academic nonsense. It's really just a haze that keeps them busy. But all of that is fortunately over now, once and for all.

  Georg Baselitz

  Students, Busy, Academic

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.

  Sasha Abramsky

  People, African American, Poverty

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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