Terrible Times Quotes

• The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

  Jared Cohen

  Freak, Century, Control Freak

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• I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, President, Financial

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dark, Vacation, Perfect

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Rama, Coal

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• I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in those terrible times. [...] I'll get to wear a uniform.

  Ben Kingsley

  Men, Play, Choices

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks THE BOXTROLLS, His Career, Voicing Bagheera in THE JUNGLE BOOK, The Mandarin, EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS, and More at Comic-Con". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 5, 2014.

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• A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marvellous time.

  Britney Spears

  Party, Funeral, Likes

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• Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Summer, Cat, Winter

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.413, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think that even in a drama, we all want to smile, and laugh because what a horrible life if we're just like "I'm in a drama." And so I think in everything you're trying to look for the humor, even if it's a dark scene, because most people want to have fun in life, as opposed to have a boring time, a terrible time.

  David Koechner

  Fun, Drama, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Running, Night, Might

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• I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Vacation, Long, Perfect

  Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.

  Tippi Hedren

  Believe, Looks, Psycho

  "Tippi Hedren Reveals a Darker Side of Hitch in ‘The Girl’". Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Long, People

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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• I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it makes me crazy and full of judgment and hostility. I have two very conservative friends, whom I cherish and would entrust my life to; we avoid politics like the plague. So in a certain way, it limits how completely we let ourselves know each other, but this is just the way it is and it is the best we can do. And I am secretly convinced that God is a progressive Democrat.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Two, Way

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• I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

  El-P

  School, Rebel, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 6, 2012.

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• We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

  Ian Mckellen

  Men, Getting Older, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Age, My Birthday, Remember

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Husband, Writing, Thinking

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• Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

  Jose Marti

  Poetry, Merit, Praise

  Jose Marti's remarks on "El Poema de Niágara" of Pérez Bonalde, 1883.

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• In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

  Vasily Grossman

  Our Generation, Evil, Generations

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• I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Feminist, Hated

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• I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

  Lois Lowry

  Past, People, Haste

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

  Virginia Woolf

  Suicide, Voice, Mad

  Suicide note to her husband, 18 Mar. 1941

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• You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

  Sanford Meisner

  Ties, Childhood, Insecurity

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