Not Happy Quotes - Page 5

• I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Honesty, War

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• Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Needs, Actors

  "Directing is the easy part". Interview with John Horn, articles.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.

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• I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

  Paul Simon

  Emotional, Pressure, Fans

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• I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

  John Moffitt

  Thinking, Risk, Body

  "John Moffitt was unhappy, quits NFL". www.espn.com. November 7, 2013.

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• Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

  Peter Deunov

  Confused, Achieve, Great Science

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.112, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

  Robert Wright

  Animal, Built

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.390, Vintage

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• I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

  Alan Bennett

  Contentment, Unhappy

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.

  Holly Black

  Thinking, Who I Am, Want

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, it's not about the awards. I don't define success by how many awards you have or how much money you have. To me, success is if I'm happy. If you have $20 million in the bank and you're not happy, you're not successful to me - that's my opinion.

  Kellie Pickler

  Successful, Opinion

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vice President Mike Pence. And I was not happy with the way that information was given. He didn't have to do that, because what he did wasn't wrong - what he did in terms of the information he saw. What was wrong was the way that other people were given that information, because that was classified information that was given illegally. That's the real problem.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Men, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

  Aimee Bender

  Meals, Bottles, Messages

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• It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dad, Successful, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• This book, 'Free bird', is so entangled with politics. I wanted to channel my own internal political monologue in some way to get it out of my brain. I'm not happy that the themes of the book have become more relevant as the publication date nears. Most of it was written in 2014 or so, before the whole Donald Trump thing began. As people paying attention know, the rise of Trump and Trumpism is not an aberration or sudden kind of phenomena.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Book, People, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

  Frederic Tuten

  Dark, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American" .

  Hasan Minhaj

  War, Optimistic, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

  John le Carre

  Shots

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• It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song - "Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece.

  Shel Silverstein

  Song, Missing, Pieces

  Shel Silverstein (1976). “The Missing Piece”, HarperCollins

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• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Fall, Perfect

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• For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness, Bad Day, Closing Up

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• I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.

  Dwyane Wade

  Focus, Get Better, Body

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• Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.

  Branko Milanovic

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Funeral, Dying, Faces

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• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Thinking, Machines

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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