Cynical Quotes - Page 15

• I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.

  Bill Ayers

  Attitude, Smart, Thinking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sorry, Apology, Technology

  "Inclusive Growth". Book by Pratheek Praveen Kumar, p. 18,

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• In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the family - especially in this movie - they know that the reason that Clara doesn't want to have an emotional, intimate relationship is more because she was hurt so badly from heartbreak that she's then being closed off and cynical.

  Karla Souza

  Hurt, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Years, Students

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• The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

  Peter Ustinov

  Religion, Atheism, Way

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

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• My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She's a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Sarcastic, Brother

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fall, Government, Hands

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• I really became aware of the fact that, oh yeah, whereas a lot of other shows are sort of cynical or jaded or just sort of coming from that sort of energy, our show is very, very about these love-based relationships. It really comes out, a lot of times, in a sweet way. And I think people find that refreshing about our show. That's one of the things I definitely picked up on.

  Steve Zissis

  Sweet, Thinking, People

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, tv.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be concerned with pleasing the middle. I find it means you have to dumb down your message to something less radical than the gospel. It can't be the real gospel. It has to be "churchiness" that pleases everyone, so they come back next Sunday and keep putting money in the collection plate. I don't mean that in a cynical way. I just think it's what happens.

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Mean, Sunday

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Perspective, World, Born

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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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, Bullshit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

  Charlie Brooker

  Known, Ifs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, World, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness of art with integrity that can speak into a lost and stuck imagination. We are awakening the imagination of people who have become cynical about the old 'grand stories' that have done so much harm. We are sowing the possibility that the might be one which could actually set them free.

  Graham Cray

  Art, Integrity, People

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• No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Relationship, Persons

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• I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

  Tracey Ullman

  Mean, People, Disrespect

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• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Immature, Architecture

  In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

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• It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.52, Heron Dance Press

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• It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

  Winona Ryder

  Sad, Junk, Stories

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• You made one mistake. You married me.

  Brendan Behan

  Mistake, Married, Made

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• When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Needs, Deeds

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• It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

  Bradford Cox

  Age, Groups, Made

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been malformed - we have been overcome with banality and the cynical misuse of language. When a candidate runs a campaign on a series of dog-whistles to bigots, then turns around and talks about "healing the wounds of division," that is right out of Orwell.

  George Saunders

  Running, Dog, Healing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Thankful, Atheist, Worst Moments

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