Suspicious Quotes - Page 14

• Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  People, Sin, Repent

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• I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Individual, Surface

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Egalitarianism, White

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Jobs, Nafta, Know How

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

  Sam Altman

  Building, Easy, Spirals

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• The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Order, Law

  "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, Chapter XI, Part III, Conclusion of the Chapter, (p. 292), 1776.

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• The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

  John Norman

  Wall, Enemy, Stranger

  John Norman (2011). “Outlaw of Gor: Gor”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, People, Band

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• A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

  Norm MacDonald

  Practice, Rivals, Merit

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• I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

  Susan Estrich

  Beautiful, Worried, Beautiful Women

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• A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

  Sam Ewing

  Flower, Men, Wife

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• Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

  Wangari Maathai

  Viruses, Flags, Aids

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• It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Men, Doe

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.9

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• We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.

  Megan Martha White

  People, World, Littles

  "The White Stripes: Getting to Know the Most Interesting Band in Music Today". Interview with Jim Jarmusch, www.whitestripes.net. 2003.

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• I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

  James Joyce

  Past, Men, Two

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Inspirational, Children, Parent

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• If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Nuclear, Bombs

  "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent" by Ronny Sofer, www.ynetnews.com. September 1, 20070.

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• I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?"

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Trying, Trouble

  "Zooey sings!". Matt Pais, Metromix, July 21, 2008.

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• I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

  Alan Kotok

  Running, Transportation

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• Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Successful, Knowing, Luck

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.236, Macmillan

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• Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

  Paul Theroux

  Mean, People, Cash

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  John Milton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Envy

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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• It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

  Allan Bloom

  America, Catholic, Soul

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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  Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Sex, People, Acting

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

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