Tendencies Quotes - Page 30

• People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

  John Malkovich

  Funny, Life, People

  "Life and taxes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. July 09, 2006.

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• We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Secret, World

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• I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Fans, Sci Fi, Closest

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• There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

  George McGovern

  Strong, War, United States

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• The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspiration, Power, Mediocrity

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Errors, Individuality

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Capitalist Economy, Liberty, Libertarian

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• My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

  Brian Molko

  People, Mouths, Trouble

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• A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Want, Way

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• A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Men, Feelings

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• Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Tough, Reason, Golfers

  "A kinder, gentler Jack". Interview to Maclean’s magazine, www.englishbaytriclub.org. May 16, 1994.

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• The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Religious, Allies

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• I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Inward, Danger

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• I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

  David Ogilvy

  Awkward, Marketing, Needs

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

  Tom Osborne

  Nfl, Odds, Relax

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• I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

  Dolly Parton

  Needs, Bigs, Hearted

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Cages, Kicks

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• It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, School, Dumb

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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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• I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Sides, Sometimes

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• Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Depressing, Peace, War

  "The unknown Afghan body count" by James Denselow, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2010.

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• The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

  George Santayana

  Reflection, Age, Doe

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

  Martin Scorsese

  Forgiveness, Kindness, Compassion

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• Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Yield, Long

  "How to stop yourself breaking that new year's resolution" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Dark, Thinking, Rabbits

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