Ugly Quotes - Page 36

• [Writing] is almost like those boats that sit really low in the water; they look kind of ugly. And then you get one of them up to 80 miles an hour and the hull comes up, and it's a beautiful thing. I'm okay with that for myself.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Writing, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Play, Good Place

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please make something like this." He said, "Don't show me such an ugly design sketch." But he also said, "You've got the right idea. I totally agree that the time has come when we can make the ultimate mobile machine."

  Masayoshi Son

  Jobs, Hands, Ideas

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• If we don't move forward with regard to creating a non-racial society in South Africa and we allow this legacy of apartheid to persist, these divisions between black and white in wealth and income and so on, in the future you would indeed have an ugly upheaval.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Moving, Black And White, Creating

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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• I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Liars, Character, Ugly Things

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.149, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed me how beautiful things can be and how ugly they can be.

  Winona Ryder

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While America may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Hate, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Rocks, Lovely

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.

  Joshua Mohr

  Memories, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leader, Principles, Noble

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Ryan Gosling] just got by because he's a cute kid? Yeah. I was an ugly kid; "The Mickey Mouse Club" wasn't for me.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Cute, Kids, Clubs

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Depressing, Years, America

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened before the First World War and it wasn't just the soldiers. You can see it happening if you read the Bloomsbury biographies. It was a reaction to a great extent against Victorianism. There was so much that was repressive and stuffy. Victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. Even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. They were painted hideously.

  Jane Jacobs

  War, Ideas, People

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!

  David LaChapelle

  Body, Sexuality, Humans

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.

  Richard Ford

  Real, Party, Evil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I feel like there are stages in many, many people's childhoods when you don't have one good friend. It can happen a lot in sixth and seventh grade because that's when things are changing so quickly. It's like a desperate dash for some kind of acceptable identity, and it can get ugly.

  Rebecca Stead

  Good Friend, Childhood, Identity

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Segregation was ugly but we made something good out of something ugly. Since we were not welcome in other places run by White people, we were forced by circumstances to let our dollars circulate in our own communities. When you were young and I was young, there was a plethora of Black businesses. But when White folks said, "yes, come and spend your money with us," we ran downtown when we could only pass through downtown. Now downtown has our money.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Running, People, Community

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  People, Ugly People

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse On Peaches". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 31, 2018.

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• Russian hackers interfered in our elections, and we like penalized a few of them. Whatever they're doing underground, we don't know. No, this is going to be a big issue. And I have to say the Barack Obama - the Donald Trump position is, A, mystifying, but, B, doomed. He has a nice little Vladimir Putin romance going on right now. I think we're going to get out the hankies, because this is going to turn into an ugly relationship within a year or two.

  David Brooks

  Nice, Thinking, Romance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

  Billy Bragg

  Dream, Worry, Nightmare

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what's there to understand, really? Everything I later learned to understand was unspeakably ugly anyway. In time, I bought some rulebooks and squeezed my way onto the honor roll, but, decades later, I've been pointed toward people described as "actively dying" who only now and then seemed to be going about it friskily.There was mostly no hustle I could notice.

  Gary Lutz

  People, Honor, Dying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is an important time to speak out on Islamaphobia. I truly believe in the inherent goodness in people, and there are people willing to be allies. I choose to focus on the incredible potential for good that this otherwise ugly situation is bringing up.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Believe, People, Focus

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It's really awful, the rhetoric that's becoming part of the national discourse, but when it has such an ugly headline - that's what activated a group of people that was otherwise complacent to go, "Hey, I'm going down to the airport, and I'm going to hold hands in solidarity around Muslims in the arrival section of the airport." That's why I've made a choice to be so public about my position.

  Hasan Minhaj

  People, Choices, Holding Hands

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.

  Don McLean

  Art, War, Men

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• I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the hunger and the beauty of its adolescence and went straight to a middle-aged ugly, overfed monster seeking mindless pleasure and being obsessively acquisitive. It's so materialistic. It grew up, but it didn't mature.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, Materialistic, Mature

  Source: www.avclub.com

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