Tripe Quotes

• What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

  Andy Summers

  Thinking, Rocks, Guitar

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

  Fergus Henderson

  Winning, Charm, Enjoy

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• One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe.

  Tom Anderson

  One Day

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• I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Interesting, Guy, Use

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• That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Worst Case Scenario, Focus, Sound

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• All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Joy, Golden

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• A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Chocolate, Ordinary

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• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

  Andrew Solomon

  Grief, People, Suffering

  Andrew Solomon (2013). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.701, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.

  Bernard Fanning

  Song, Past, Stuff

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

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• You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

  Craig Silvey

  Long, People, Doubt

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• What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, College, Expression

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• What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

  Scott Adams

  Being Yourself, Believe, Mean

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• But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

  "Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu". readersupportednews.org. August 28, 2014.

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