Toxic Quotes - Page 5

• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  Rachel Cusk

  Lying, Orchids, Toxic Waste

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• There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

  Jesse Jackson

  Patterns, Discrimination, Lending

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff, and some people only see the toxic stuff and wave off the positive stuff. You can't have an honest conversation.

  Van Jones

  America, People, Stuff

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• I am very passionate about non-toxic food and beauty and home.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Home, Passionate

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.

  Van Jones

  Stuff, Accepting, Trump

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

  Andrew Lam

  Country, Atmosphere, Unfortunate

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Thinking, Self, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

  Clint Howard

  Hard Work, Breathing, Eyebrows

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

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• The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

  Sunita Narain

  Future, Choices, Growth

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• I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.

  Thom Yorke

  Hate, Car, Fans

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• (Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Army, Looks, Bottles

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forster, Virginia Kantra (2004). “Man of My Dreams”, p.38, Penguin

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• Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
  Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
  If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
  Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
  For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

  Cormega

  Sex, Hate, Rap

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• It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Jobs, Rain, Technology

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

  Ward Churchill

  Responsibility, Choices, Fluidity

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• Unacceptable Levels is Powerful.  It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation.  Our ability to protect our families is at stake.

  Joan Blades

  Powerful, Toxic Chemicals, Levels

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• The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.

  Chris Hayes

  Four, Letters, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Would Be, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.60, Macmillan

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• I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, Challenges, Desire

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• Luce: "But what about all those other times, when I die before we kiss, before--" Bill: "Before you even have a chance to see how toxic your relationship might become?

  Lauren Kate

  Kissing, Might, Bills

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.872, Delacorte Press

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• I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I meet a young man from Somalia. I meet a young man from Eritrea who engages with this nation with a sense of hope and a sense of desire. But we also we know that there are other elements of this nation that are toxic.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Men, Cities, Airports

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• So our own actions sometimes have undermined our safety, in our efforts to fight terrorism. The only way this can work is if we are aligned with liberals, with moderate Muslim forces. But if our war on terrorism is seen - as it is seen by many Muslims - as a war on Islam itself, it's very hard for us to have Muslim alliances, because America and the West have become so toxic.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  War, Fighting, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The [George W.] Bush administration marked a very serious and profoundly negative turning point - not just for the nation, but for the international order, because we started to govern on the idea of "might makes right." And that's a very old, toxic and infectious idea.

  Edward Snowden

  Order, Ideas, Negative

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• I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Crazy, Mean

  "Taylor Swift announces new album 'Red' in fan web chat" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

  Judith Orloff

  Love, Positive, Anger

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony

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• As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the whole thing. Anyway, our enemies had by now adopted our methods and as they became increasingly successful in this mode of warfare we were no longer exclusively the aggressors, but found ourselves more and more at the receiving end.

  Otto Hahn

  War, Successful, Mind

  Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

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