Tearing Apart Quotes

• It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Perception, Matter, Facts

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Echoes, Ennui

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

  Stephen Colbert

  Perception, Matter, Facts

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Mean, Perception

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

  Adam Yauch

  Stuff

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• Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

  Jim Carrey

  Persons

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

  Jon Ronson

  Ideas, People, Boundaries

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

  Dawn French

  Children, War, Thinking

  "Dawn French opens her heart on the death of her mum and the challenges her family faced" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

  Simone Weil

  Distance, Love Is, Agony

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.

  Red Haircrow

  Love, Hero, Men

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• What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crazy, Games, Mind

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “The Edible Woman”, New Canadian Library

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• As someone who's very nerd-minded, whenever I see a lot of cross-platform stuff when I get bonus material on either side, then it makes me want to dive deeper, sort of like tearing apart the different pieces of the pie.

  Chris Hardwick

  Pie, Nerd, Different

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

  James Bryant Conant

  Taken, Years, Special

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• I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Fun, Secret, Trying

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• A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

  Jason Momoa

  Survival, Eating, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• Is [Obama] the worst president ever? He's certainly the most destructive president we've had in terms of tearing apart this country and all of the freedoms that we have fought for.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, President, Worst

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• Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Cancer, Stronger, Cockroaches

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