Inbreds Quotes

• I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

  Angela Lansbury

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, New York, Thinking

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• The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

  Alan Greenspan

  Needs, Values

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.17, Penguin

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• Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Exercise, Data

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

  Philip Johnson

  Sex, Age, Desire

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• Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Pride, Men

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• There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Religious, Critical Thinking, Dangerous

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• I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.

  Doug Stanhope

  Depression, Unique, Doctors

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• I've got taste, it's inbred in me.

  David Hasselhoff

  Stupid, Taste

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• I was inbred into the game by my father

  David Pleat

  Father, Games

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• The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how far I'm going to love,this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek."The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we're like Christ in everything We're left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.

  Francis Frangipane

  Hypocrite, People, Choices

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• Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Order, Survival, Evolution

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sibling, Differences, People

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• The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

  Jean Shepherd

  Family, Kentucky, Feet

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• the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

  Robin McKinley

  Running, Speak English, Maps

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• Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

  Neil Peart

  Role Models, Choices, Age

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• Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.

  Dorothy Day

  Christian, Country, Brother

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• Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

  Barry Diller

  Children, Community, Hollywood

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• Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Generosity, Quality

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• The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid.

  DJ Shadow

  Strong, Attitude, Years

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• Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store!

  Carlos Mencia

  Race, White, People

  "Mind of Mencia". Sketch-comedy Series, 2005-2008.

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• It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, People, Ordinary

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

  Michael Lewis

  Sea, Fishing, People

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• Sammy Lee is another inbred player

  David Pleat

  Player

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• I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.

  Laurie R. King

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.287, Macmillan

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