Suspicious Quotes - Page 9

• I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

  Robert Duvall

  Country, Doors, People

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• I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

  Simon Cowell

  Successful, Thinking, Achievement

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• There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

  Billy Corgan

  Emergencies, Pandemics, Shows

  "Billy Corgan: Swine flu was 'created by man'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2009.

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• Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

  John le Carre

  News, Literature, Secrecy

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• Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

  David Byrne

  Artist, Community

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• I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Country, Independent, Men

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• I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

  Alan Ball

  Tv Shows, Littles, Tvs

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• The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

  Dan Rather

  Dog, Smell, Bark

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• I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

  Keith Richards

  Marriage, Atheism, Unhappy

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• The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

  Jean Rostand

  Power, Vocation

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

  Scott Dikkers

  Relationship, Romance, Chance

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.135, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Believe, Government

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• Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

  Aristotle

  Humor, Examination, Tests

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• Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to." Shut up.

  Rachel Caine

  Ideas, Car, Three

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Devil's Due”, p.132, Harlequin

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• The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

  Julian Baggini

  Trying, Argument, Failing

  "The modern believer is not suspicious enough" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Robots, Want, Scope

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• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relationship, Anniversary, Being Happy

  "The Importance of Being Earnest". Revised Edition,

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• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Affection, Persons

  Church and Home (published by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church), Volume 1, p. 21, 1964.

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• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Gertrude Stein

  America, Upset, Friendly

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  Benjamin Spock

  Class, Ideas, Racism

  "Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior". Book by Benjamin Spock, p. 103, 1970.

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• Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

  Mike Rowe

  Men, Flats, Pleats

  "Dirty Job: Catching Up With Mike Rowe". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

  Tom Baker

  Who I Am, People, Twelve

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• What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

  Jim Bishop

  Real, Writing, Men

  "Talk With Jim Bishop" by Lewis Nichols, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 1955.

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• A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with no center of union and no common interest.

  Josiah Tucker

  People, Revolution, Till The End

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• If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

  George Clooney

  Coffee, Home, Character

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