Useless Quotes - Page 17

• Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.

  Mark Lawson

  Photography, Sex, Stars

  "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• Most everything government does is worse than useless.

  James Cook

  Government, Doe

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• I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

  Mary Mattingly

  Needs, Speak, Port

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

  James Purefoy

  Art, Cutting, Useless Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in any sort of a contest - financial, mental or physical - it's an enormous advantage to have opponents who have been taught that it's useless to even try." I believe that over time value investors will outperform the market and that choosing to match it is both lazy and shortsighted.

  Seth Klarman

  Believe, Silly, Lazy

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• Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with it, wear it, or make love with it unless deeply disturbed. In and of itself, it has no emotions, no mind, and no conscience. It doesn't put out flowers or have children, and it makes a lousy pet. It has meaning only when it circulates, and is exchanged for other things; and money doesn't do that for itself. People do that, using money as a symbolic token.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Flower, People

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• I just feel kind of out of place on Easter. I feel kind of useless because everybody else has kids and I don't and I'm just standing there with nothing to do.

  Holly Madison

  Easter, Kids, Kind

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• There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Should Have, Tasks, Executing

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• No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exception

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• There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Two, Pleasure, Vain

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• We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Real, Fire Of Love, Political

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• I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Planning, Found

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• Remorse for what is done is useless.

  Philo

  Done, Remorse

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• The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

  Elton John

  Breweries, Organize

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• The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Team, Motorcycle, Males

  P. J. O'Rourke (2010). “Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be With an Oi”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

  Henry Adams

  Showy, Senators

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• I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.

  Mireille Enos

  Daughter, Baby, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

  Angela Carter

  Useless Things, Cash, Way

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• Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

  Paul Krugman

  Past, Years, Macroeconomics

  "The Academic Man’s Burden" by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2009.

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• I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand. We educate our patients and their friends to believe that every or almost every symptom and disease can be benefited by a drug.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Believe, Drug, Demand

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• I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Joy, Inspire

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• It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Giving Up, Soul, Vices

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• Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

  Joe Bastianich

  Hate, Lazy, Different

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• My husband is so useless that it's hard for me to be romantic with him. I get down on the floor and say, If you love me, blink your eyes.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Eye, If You Love Me

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• A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

  Franz Kafka

  Winter, Dark, Night

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