Cynical Quotes - Page 19

• As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

  Rose Byrne

  Twenties, Narcissism, Realizing

  "EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne is the Girl Next Door in ‘Neighbors’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 6, 2014.

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• You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

  Barack Obama

  America, People, Fashionable

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• The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

  Denis Johnston

  Luck, Odd Things, Use

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• For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Thinking, People, Funeral

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are writing those shows probably feel exactly as I do - that sometimes the darkness of a story can highlight the light in a story. There's a lot of cynical stuff but I think it may be even more in movies now where you see so many movies about cynical and corrupted characters. That's the state of many movies right now but movies, television, all of culture, there's always going to be a battle between the stories that are cynical and stories that are hopeful.

  Randall Wallace

  Writing, Character, Dark

  "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

  Kevin Costner

  Hero, Men, Thinking

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• A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

  Jeff Raz

  Jobs, Giving, Directors

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• My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.

  Paula Vogel

  Believe, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: variety.com

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• What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.

  Peter Buttigieg

  Faithful, President, Ideology

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

  Veena Sud

  Powerful, Interesting, Sacred Things

  Source: deadline.com

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• The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Moving, People

  Source: think-left.org

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• I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

  Bipasha Basu

  Laughing, Being Positive, Important

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• My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Doctors

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• Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Men, Wife

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• Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

  Sam Levenson

  Being Happy, Trying, Unhappiness

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

  Benito Mussolini

  People, Religion, Insane

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• I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

  Emily Mortimer

  Citizens, Inheritance, Determined

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• Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

  John Lydon

  Years, Television, Interviews

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• I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking to people...there's something appealing about it, but also there's something that feels alien to me, as a cynical Irish man.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I don't know what the comics community could do to make everyone feel welcome; I'm cynical and unsure if everyone can feel welcome, simply because so many people have conflicting ideas of what is welcoming, but I think that calling out creators and comic industry people who have harassed people and/or been abusive is a good first step. If we create a culture where those kinds of actions can no-longer go unchecked, then more people may feel welcome to participate and know that they will be heard if they experience unfairness.

  Liz Prince

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Unification Church, People

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• Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking that one man can't ruin everything. I don't know if it's just because I'm hopeful or cynical, but I just don't think one man can change everything. It's just like I didn't think Obama could save the country by himself. I don't think Trump can ruin the country all by himself. I don't know. I hope I'm right.

  Michael Che

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Divorce, Firsts

  News Summaries, December 31, 1969.

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• Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doe, Found

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.45, Fordham Univ Press

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• I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

  Patton Oswalt

  Airports, Comedy, Kind

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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