Outrageous Quotes - Page 11

• The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Might, Skepticism

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

  Pixie Lott

  Trying, Needs, Feels

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• Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

  Paul Krugman

  Normal, Republican, Modern

  "Trillion Dollar Fraudsters". www.nytimes.com. March 20, 2015.

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• If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

  Diane Cilento

  Girl, Fashion, School

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• You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Soul, Spirit

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• At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

  Marc Edwards

  Hands, Rights, Records

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• And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they're prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Thinking, Hands, Practice

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.

  Harlan Ellison

  Horse, Pain, Real

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• I have no skeletons in my closet.

  David Vitter

  Skeletons, Conservative, Closets

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• To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.

  James Dobson

  Forever, Ted Bundy, Conservative

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• Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Conservative, Century, 20th Century

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• I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Night, Bags, Body

  "In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2006.

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• I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

  Rupert Holmes

  Character, Knowing, Mind

  "PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Rupert Holmes, Lyricist-Librettist of The Nutty Professor". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. August 4, 2012.

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• They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

  Cass Elliot

  Stupid, Silly, Week

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• The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Naked, Tools, Actors

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

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• Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

  Charles Colson

  Baby, Home, America

  "Bush Stares Into The Abyss" by Max Blumenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2005.

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• Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is the incredible inundation of soft money and its pernicious effects.

  John McCain

  Moving, America, Trying

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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• I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Views, Yesterday

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• For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

  Shari Arison

  Responsibility, Long, Greed

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• Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Crazy, Way, Made

  "Schwarzenegger Criticized for Ties to U.S. English". www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2003.

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• I think up until '71 or '72, Herman's Hermits had our second and third Number One records in 1969 and 1970. You know, the first one was in 1964. It was just a question of the American success being so outrageous, that that attracted the most attention.

  Peter Noone

  Thinking, Numbers, Attention

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• I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.

  Dustin Johnson

  Golf, College, Games

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• I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

  Claudia Rankine

  People, Ordinary, Lots Of Friends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  R. D. Laing

  Destiny, Men, World

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

  Geneen Roth

  Kindness, Mistake, Today

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Feb 25, 2012

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