Ugly Quotes - Page 34

• I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Media, People

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a decision before you have to. And that rule appears to have worked brilliantly for Democratic candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has avoided taking a position on the president's trade agenda and has remained out of the ugly public spat with the progressive wing of her party. She has also not taken a position on the Iranian - on the talks.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Taken, Wings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

  Catherine Brady

  Pages, Quotation Marks, Boxes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suffered a lot when there was, like, a birthday party and I was not invited. Not because I was ugly or stupid; I was not invited because the parents would say to the kids, "Don't invite him, because he's poor and he comes from the south of Italy, and he can't give you nothing."

  Riccardo Tisci

  Stupid, Party, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates consequences in the world that to me are simply inexcusable.

  Sam Hamill

  Religious, War, World

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I used to love to watch the birds nest. That political poem, or environmental poem, was unsuccessful because Safeway built there anyway. And yet the poem has something to say today, as it did then. And I speak here only of my own poems. The agenda for every poet has to be different because most of us write from direct human experience in the world.

  Sam Hamill

  Writing, Numbers, Bird

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  News, Environment, States

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I didn't like the tone of Steve Jobs [movie] [2015] at all. It was very ugly, kind of rude. I didn't laugh, it was very uncomfortable. It seemed like all the worst moments of his life. It was very critical of Steve Jobs as a person, and it didn't make for a comfortable viewing experience for me. But I guess I don't know who Steve Jobs is, and I guess I didn't know what I was gonna go see. I thought it was gonna be celebrating the rise of Apple, but it wasn't that at all.

  Bun B

  Jobs, Apples, Worst Moments

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• Ennio Morricone is royalty. He doesn't really do this a lot and Quentin brought him back [in Hateful Eight]. Quentin [Tarantino] basically went back and made his The Good, The Bad and The Ugly-kind of film, the ultimate epic spaghetti western, and then you've got mister spaghetti western himself scoring your movie. It's gonna be hard to not vote for him in a landslide. Probably the easiest win of the night.

  Bun B

  Winning, Night, Epic

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• My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

  Nikki Jean

  Art, Realism, Term

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• After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.

  Chris Hayes

  Fighting, Battle, Debate

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You can have 100 people tell you how beautiful you look, and one person will say, "God, did you sleep last night?" Not even "You're ugly," but "Did you sleep?" and you're all of a sudden like, "What?!" And the whole day that's what you'll remember.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Beautiful, Sleep, Night

  "From Porn to Working Out, Khloé Kardashian Thinks You Should Be 'Doing Things That Make You Happy'". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Children, Hands

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

  Maria Sharapova

  Retirement, Would Be, Downtown

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The world can get a bit ugly sometimes.

  Patrick Wolf

  World, Sometimes, Bits

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• Well, I started years ago with Flashdance and we also did Coyote Ugly, so I have put my toe in the water before with romantic comedies. I love making them and I love making people laugh. That's a trademark that I don't think any producer would turn down.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Thinking, Years, Water

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Inspiration, Ideas

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.

  Mirabel Osler

  Beauty, Eye, Garden

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.36, A&C Black

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• How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Christian, Couple, Hate

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

  Gavin Hood

  War, Reality, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer, I wrote an article about it for GQ. Disney read this article about this filthy, disgusting pit in the East Village [of New York City], where we used to set the bar on fire to get customers away from us, and said, "That's a great movie for kids!" They made the fantastic Coyote Ugly movie, now legendary.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  New York, Kids, Fire

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• Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

  Duncan Jones

  Cute, Guy, Fantasy

  Source: collider.com

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• Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

  Muhammad Ali

  Class, Rhythm, Footwork

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Cat, Ugly Duckling

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It's, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn't close.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Ideas, Race, Ethnicity

  Source: www.slate.com

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