Bullshit Quotes - Page 11

• I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.

  Nas

  Rap, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.

  Katherine Waterston

  Phoenix, Ego, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Plato, Smart

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• One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Taken, People, Understanding

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• So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Kids, People, Childhood

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.

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• Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cutting, Light, Energy

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• I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.

  Judy Blume

  Baby, Strong, Nice

  Judy Blume (2012). “Forever . . .”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist? Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves. The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sports, Moving, Animal

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.25, Vintage Canada

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• Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite.

  George Carlin

  Missing, Looks, Phrases

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

  June Diane Raphael

  Real, Thinking, Age

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

  George Carlin

  Stories, All Time

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• On the chessboard of his godforsaken existence, the pieces were lined up, the play preordained. Man, so many times in life you didn't get to pick your path because the way you went was decided for you. Free will was such bullshit. -Vishous's thoughts

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Play, Pieces

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.86, Penguin

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• People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. They believed their flashing signs, too. They ought to be standing up and shouting, "This isn't me! This isn't me!" They would if they had any decency. "This isn't me!" Then you might know how to proceed through the flashing bullshit of this world.

  Philip Roth

  Ideas, People, World

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• No. --Claire Bullshit! Yes, a world of yes. --Eve

  Rachel Caine

  World, Claire

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• There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.

  Scott Lynch

  Mother, Taken, People

  Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.25, Spectra

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• I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

  Marion Barry

  Taken, Responsibility, Ducks

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Rivers, Miracle

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.22, City Lights Publishers

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• Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Inspirational, Stars

  "Moonstruck". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

  Dar Williams

  Feelings, Towns, Kind

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit.

  Joss Whedon

  Essence, Joy, Males

  "Joss Whedon Explains Why Donald Trump Is America’s Scariest Big Bad". Interview With Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2016.

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• I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of... I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Nice, Thinking, Cynical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Feelings, Sometimes, Life Is

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• I did the Daily Show, and then I did Air America Radio, and I realized that I was lucky enough to have a job where I could get information to people. But those spaces weren't appropriate to then tell people what to do - they were corporate enterprises. My main job was to be funny, so I was trying to figure out, how can I combine all the things I love - comedy, feminism, calling out bullshit - into a creative space that other creative people would want to join in and help out?

  Lizz Winstead

  Jobs, Air, Creative Space

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Self, Control Someone

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  William Friedkin

  Empty Rooms, Actors, Able

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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