Obnoxious Quotes - Page 3

• Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Real, People, Deaf

  "On a dark desert highway" by David Sinclair, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• I'm a 20 year old white boy residing on the Eastside of Cleveland, OH, and I am loud and obnoxious troubled youth that spends weeknights pissing parents off by turning their daughter's room into a giant orgy-fest.

  Machine Gun Kelly

  Daughter, Boys, Years

  Source: imfromcleveland.com

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• When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

  Henry Miller

  Psychosis, Silence, Fans

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• For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues. I want to say something nice. Some kind of thanks. I stand there, rehearsing it in my mind. "Oh my God," he says, "did you see that girl's tits?" Maybe not today.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Real, Nice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

  Ron Reagan

  Jobs, Elephants, Drunk

  "Reagan Blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 14, 2003.

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• I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

  Henry Adams

  Want, Way, Wells

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1868-1885”

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• We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

  PZ Myers

  Should

  "The TAM London 2010 live blog" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

  Paul Bettany

  Self, Bully, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.

  Wayne White

  Thinking, Crowds, Spirit

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

  Barney Frank

  People, Speech, Tough

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• I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tired, Cocky, Player

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• Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

  Sheldon Siegel

  Nice, People, Together

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• You know, the eleven million people living in the shadows, I believe, they're already American citizens... These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard alone eleven million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Views, People

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• The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.

  John Foxe

  Venice, Years, Matter

  John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

  Ezra Klein

  College, Men, Practice

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• Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.

  Alvin Holmes

  Sex, Men, Long

  "Alabama Dem Shocks Radio Audience With His Support for a Man Marrying a ‘Little Mule’" by Mike Opelka, www.theblaze.com. April 11, 2014.

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• But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

  Nancy Pelosi

  Married, Knows, Ifs

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• It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

  Donald Sterling

  Yale, People, Black

  "Obama leads backlash against LA Clippers owner's alleged racist remarks" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2014.

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• There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.

  Eric Holder

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  "Eric Holder: U.S. Still 'Afraid' of Race". ABC News interview, abcnews.go.com. July 13, 2014.

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• I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Uptight, Littles

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• According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Independence, Firsts

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• I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

  William Shenstone

  Names, I Am Thankful, Pun

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.101

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• I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

  Kenny Hickey

  Hate, Night, Years

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• We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Long, Mind Blowing

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• Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Crush, Falling In Love, Educational

  "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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