Vain Quotes - Page 22

• We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.

  Christopher Titus

  Down And, Different, Hated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.

  Brian Regan

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

  Taran Killam

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Taran Killam on the SNL Christmas Show". Interview with Terron Moore, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

  H. G. Wells

  Loss, Add, Propose

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.4, Booklassic

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• This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Waste, Repentance, This Life

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• If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Men, Suffering, Shadow

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• The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

  Epicurus

  Suffering, Philosopher, Empty

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• It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Philosophy, Adequate, Causes

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• Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

  George Eliot

  Years, Expectations, Teach

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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• One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cameras, Entertainment, Tvs

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

  Gwen Stefani

  Want, Enough

  "'I'm like every other woman. I'm super-vain. I have issues'". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2007.

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• The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

  H. G. Wells

  Order, People, Singing

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• Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Sleep, Political

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.93

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• Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

  Dave Pelzer

  Effort, Purpose, Sole

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• My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written and published in Romania. In 1973 I was ready to publish the novel Arpièges, which I had started writing in Romanian and of which I had published some fragments under the title Vain Art of the Fugue. Some years later, I finished Necessary Marriage.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix Médicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Art, Recognition, Milan

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would force the narrator to turn around and start his path anew.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Art, Narrators, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too high-minded about that.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Strange, Virgins

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.

  Jackee Harry

  Dream, Want, Stuff

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Strong, Caring, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids." But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.

  Questlove

  Silly, Kids, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.

  Andrew Linzey

  Spiritual, Nature, Animal

  Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

  Colin Kaepernick

  America, People, Giving

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

  John Dewey

  Obstacles, Form, Species

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spirit, Ends, Thee

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow

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