Cynical Quotes - Page 20

• I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening. I'm a passionate person, who is not afraid to express emotion in print.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

  Graham Norton

  Comedian, Kind, Bunch

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. August 16, 2004.

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• Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

  Franz Kafka

  Revolution, Slime, Bureaucracy

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• If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

  Alan King

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory, or even if you're doing celebrity allegory. You still need to take the cynical out of it.

  Mark Waid

  Political, Superhero, Inspire

  "Mark Waid on his personal digital-comics revolution". Interview With Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true in some cases, but on the whole I can't accept this as a vision of art. There's something so cynical about assuming your audience is unintelligent or that artists shouldn't care about their viewers.

  Dario Robleto

  Art, Dirty, Reflection

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

  Henry Rollins

  Shooting, Matter, Burned

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• I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.

  Debbie Macomber

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

  Maya Angelou

  World, Young, Persons

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

  Henri Rousseau

  Real, Believe, Simple

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• Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

  Rick Pitino

  People, Negative, Killers

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• In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.

  Richard Bach

  Animal, Light, Talking

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.

  Jon Stewart

  Daughter, Moving, Gay

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• Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.

  Robert Montgomery

  Art, School, East London

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.

  Allan Boesak

  Money, Thinking, Two

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark last moments. After a while though, I don't want to send the audience home bummed out, or distressed ... I want to see what's hopeful. I'm not overly cheery all the time, and yet I'm not suicidal either. I do think people can make choices that make their lives happier.

  Christopher Durang

  Home, Suicidal, Dark

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• If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

  Henry Miller

  Falling In Love, Forgiving, Growing

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Levels, Bases

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• I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, Touching, Littles

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• The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Loss, Thinking

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• The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Challenges, Age

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• Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

  Lily Tomlin

  Matter, Newspapers

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• I try and find and access the parts of myself that still blindly believe and have faith in a lot of things. I don't mean to be cynical, but I've also discovered that I still have a lot of those. And they may not be where I expected them to be. Maybe I've been in relationships, and this is a movie about relationships, like romance relationships - so maybe I've been in some that have sort of made me lose my faith. But deep down inside, I still have blind faith.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Believe, Mean, Romance

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Acting, Potatoes

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