Offensive Quotes - Page 8

• That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

  Jane Lynch

  Women, Teaching, School

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• A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.

  Vladimir Peniakoff

  Time, Army, Thinking

  Private Army (1950) pt. 2, ch. 5

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• I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.

  Simon Tam

  Football, Team, Hate

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, "but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like maybe spend a weekend at a crack house? I heard those people are very nonjudgmental, and if you accidentally say something offensive you can just blame it on their hallucinations.

  Jenny Lawson

  Girlfriend, Weekend, People

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Eye, Fire

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.857, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.

  Naomi Novik

  Laughing, Insulting, Going Away

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• I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

  John Green

  Real, Teenager, Emotional

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• But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Lying, Princess

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

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• This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Hunting, Views

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Forgiving, Worship

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.131, Google Publishing

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• If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Hands, Idols

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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• People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that didn't rely on offensive, edgy material because I think it was an exercise in trying to write without that. Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.

  Bo Burnham

  Writing, Kids, Exercise

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.

  Emilie Autumn

  Music, Thinking, Voice

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• I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

  Marco Rubio

  Iowa, Candidates, Coordinator

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• I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Thinking, Emotional

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• So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

  Trey Parker

  Christmas, Song, Albums

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Thinking, Surprise

  "I dare you" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2004.

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• I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

  Grimes

  Rights, Issues, Environmental

  "Sexism In Music Targeted By Female Singer Grimes In New Blog Post". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Optimistic, Mean, Pioneers

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• For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

  Al Franken

  Years, Jokes, Appropriate

  "Franken helps craft McCain 'SNL' skit" by Josh Kraushaar, Jonathan Martin, www.politico.com. September 20, 2008.

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• God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

  Jerry Falwell

  America, Giving, Sick

  "God Gave U.S. 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says". John F. Harris, The Washington Post, September 14, 2001.

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• The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

  Jerry Falwell

  Organization, America, Sick

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

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• If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

  Eminem

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• Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

  Fred Durst

  Done, Want, Instant

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