Obnoxious Quotes

• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Helping, Cry

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.31, Revell

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• Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

  John Mellencamp

  Honesty, Real, Mean

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• Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Creativity, No Excuses, Behavior

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “No Time to Die”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• You should always speak your mind, and be bold, and be obnoxious, and do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you to stop it.

  Chelsea Handler

  Speak Your Mind, Want, Should

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• If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Lakers, Uniforms

  "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Success, Jealousy, Good Luck

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.102, e-artnow

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• I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Today

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• I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

  Mario Cantone

  Rude, Crass, Contemptuous

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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• How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Views, Political

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• I live to harass white folks.

  Derrick Bell

  College, White, Folks

  Derrick A. Bell, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (2005). “The Derrick Bell Reader”, p.471, NYU Press

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• There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Children, College

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• The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

  Noam Chomsky

  College, People, Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Tongue, Fit

  "The Prologue" l. 25 (1650)

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• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Success, Law, Political

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1869

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• It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Stress, Ability

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• Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

  Leo Burnett

  Fun, Economy, Sells

  "Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett". Book by Leo Burnett, 1961.

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• Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. ...How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Father, Blessed

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• I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

  Grover Furr

  College, People, Crime

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• Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

  William Feather

  Good Morning, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Corporations, Economics

  "Hillary: 'Don't Let Anybody Tell You' That 'Businesses Create Jobs'". Hillary Clinton's speech to the crowd at a Boston rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley at the Park Plaza Hotel, www.breitbart.com. October 24, 2014.

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• I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.

  Krysten Ritter

  Loud

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

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• As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  Ward Churchill

  Patriotism, Towers, World

  "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens" by Ward Churchill, www.kersplebedeb.com. September 12, 2001.

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• A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

  Tacitus

  Men, Work Out, Ruins

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