Unfortunate Quotes - Page 20

• A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

  Tom Colicchio

  Males, Certain, Profession

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• Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Judging, Wisconsin

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• Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

  Anthony Trollope

  Life, Success, Misfortunes

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley Farm”

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• Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Struggle, Compassion

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• It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

  Julia Roberts

  Ideas, Giving, Looks

  "Julia Roberts: I’m A Hindu, I Don’t Believe In Botox". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and revealed truth and to say: Our complete agenda is to be enacted into laws governing the entire society. Many different religious groups claim that authority, not only Catholics. A lot of different Protestant groups as well are stepping forward to say: Here is our agenda, it is a moral agenda, ergo it must be enacted into law. I think that the distinction between natural law and more ultimate kinds of doctrine is being lost.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Religious, Thinking, Catholic

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I'm still working! I think of all the other comics that didn't get the light shined on them, just because it's just how fame works, and it's unfortunate. But there are so many great comics out there who are still working, and I still see them.

  Louie Anderson

  Thinking, Fame

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's unfortunate that some people do not see what entertainers do in the background, but many of us do so much work with causes. You know some people have chewed me out, saying things like, "Oh why could you post pictures in your dresses and meanwhile they killing black men on the street?" I'm thinking, excuse me do you know what I did today? Do you know what I'm doing right now while I'm reading this post? So I think a lot of celebrities get a bad rap because people see the surface.

  Tichina Arnold

  Rap, Reading, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

  David Duchovny

  Artist, People, Needs

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• It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

  Rita Dove

  School, Needs, Sometimes

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• I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

  Guy Pearce

  Mean, Thinking, Unfortunate Things

  "Q+A: Guy Pearce, Man with a Gun". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. "Green wood," I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Men, Fire

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

  Gore Vidal

  Fall, Hands, Theatre

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• I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate, I'm not sure which is correct - habit of editing while I'm writing which everyone tells me that I shouldn't do that. But that's just the way I write and I think it's important to stay true to your own writing style and momentum.

  Nami Mun

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Character, Thinking

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

  Kató Lomb

  Children, Average, Car

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• Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

  William Saroyan

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Mean, Understanding

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

  Andrew Young

  Wisdom, Views, Looks

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• I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

  Saul Williams

  Mistake, Rap, Ghetto

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• If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

  Shaun White

  Law, Cities, Building

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• People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Conceited, Thinking

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• It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Errors, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.115

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• It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Facts, Individual, Wells

  Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette, Christopher S. Hyatt (1992). “Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia: Sexual Evocation”, New Falcon Pubns

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