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• I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the narration, each of which was found wanting on a storytelling basis. The final version was something that I was completely unhappy with. The movie obviously has a very strong following, but it could have been more than a cult picture.

  Harrison Ford

  Strong, Blade Runner, Records

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

  Emile Chartier

  Horror Stories, People, Upset

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• It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.

  Emile Chartier

  Waiting, Desire, Doe

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• When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a time when we just had an absolutely horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and if the NSA and the FBI were unhappy with anything, Congress was ready to pass any law they wanted. The PATRIOT Act got pushed through very, very quickly with bipartisan support and very, very little debate, yet it didn't include anything about encryption.

  Matt Blaze

  Years, Law, Nsa

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

  Woody Allen

  Suicide, Brooklyn, Grew

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• Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Way, Ends

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• And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

  Jean Webster

  Children, Growing Up, Care

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.65, Jester House Publishing

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• Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.

  Behdad Sami

  Enemy, Made, Accomplished

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• Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

  W. C. Fields

  Nice

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• I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Kids, Childhood

  "California dreaming" by Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2008.

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• When I'm unhappy with something, people know, because I don't want to hold on to it. I'd rather deal immediately with the stuff that bothers me, so using my network - my girlfriends, my husband, my mom - I talk a lot, I vent.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Girlfriend, Husband

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.

  Sun Ra

  Play, Frustrated, Musician

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• The other thing is that I'm a pretty moody guy, but no one really wants to see a normal-looking guy complain about things or talk about being unhappy. That's hard. Most people are like, 'Well, you have all your hair and you're tall, so why are you unhappy?' That can be limiting.

  Gary Gulman

  Hair, People, Guy

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• If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

  Carl Jung

  Mind, Ifs

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• I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

  Bob Seger

  Capitol

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• I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.

  Meredith Brooks

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

  Fan Bingbing

  Writing, Diaries, Might

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

  Anne Robinson

  Miserable, Rich, Poor

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, Fiduciary, World

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• There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.

  Richey Edwards

  Kids, Ideas, White

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• Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

  Jane Austen

  Errors, People, Feelings

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.429, Open Road Media

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• I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, Nice, Sleep

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• After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, Unhealthy

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• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Trying, Want

  "Sympathy for the devil" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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