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• True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.

  Nicholson Baker

  Cute, Names, Forgiving

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

  MyAnna Buring

  Private Life

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• New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Cities, Government

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• Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

  Dick Cavett

  Tvs, Subtle

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.67, Macmillan

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• I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

  Alexander McQueen

  Thinking, Clothes, Romance

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• A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

  Laird Barron

  Mouths, Pay, Tradition

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• This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible.

  Brandon Mull

  Feelings, Mind, Would Be

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

  Philip Roth

  Art, Temptation, Desire

  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Noses, Messengers

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.253, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.

  Jim Butcher

  Organization, Goal, Clean

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

  Michael Cadnum

  School, Ironic, Portraits

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• A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

  Clarence Thomas

  Courage, Truth, Justice

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• Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

  J. G. Ballard

  Wall, Cities, Tyrants

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Vampire, Feminism, Female

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.55, Basic Books

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• I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self, Hatred, Ignorant

  "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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• To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

  Constant Lambert

  Taken, Bombs, Melancholy

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert , "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32, 1934.

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• a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Expression

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Castles

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels". www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

  Peter McWilliams

  Silly, Hemp, Prohibition

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.

  Michael Lewis

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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• Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

  Donald Trump

  Europe, Plot, Problem

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Ghost Stories, Guy

  Source: www.ign.com

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• There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Moral, Kind, Republican

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

  Billy Corgan

  Self, Knowing, Done

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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