Jerk Quotes - Page 5

• I've made it a point here that I'm not going to knee-jerk react to anything, and especially before [Donald] Trump is inaugurated.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Knees, Made, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Numbers, Issues

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.

  Sam Hamill

  Perfect, Leader, Political

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• [I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.

  Naomie Harris

  Roots, Pie, Shepherds

  "Naomie Harris is the new James Bond Girl in Skyfall". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

  Renee Fleming

  Jobs, Confusing, Suggestions

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.57, Penguin

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• I act like a jerk sometimes.

  Bill Murray

  Sometimes

  "Wonderfully Animated Rare 1988 Interview with Bill Murray" by Joey Paur, geektyrant.com.

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• When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

  Jenny Slate

  People, Laughing, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, you've got fans and 99.9 percent of them are great-and .1 percent are jerks.

  Metta World Peace

  Fans, Percent, Knows

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• As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

  Neil Young

  Want, Preaching

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• The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Jobs, Thinking, Long

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

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• All guys are jerks but they get hotter with age and we learn to be more tolerant.

  Kristen Bell

  Guy, Age, Hotter

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• Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

  Greg Behrendt

  Change, People, Mind

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street?

  Eugene Mirman

  Towns, Our Town, Building

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• It's too difficult to convey tone in electronic communication. And we can solve this my friends. All we need is some new fonts. 'Great party Arj. Best party ever.' What a jerk! How do you know he wasn't being sincere, Arj? Because he wrote it in Sarcastica! If he had enjoyed himself, he would have used Good Times Roman.

  Arj Barker

  Party, Communication, Needs

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• People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

  Rob Huebel

  Mean, People, Sound

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.

  Jamie Foxx

  Girl, Teacher, School

  "Jamie Unchained". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ironic, Everyday, Flippant

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks and I would like to continue that streak.

  Mackenzie Davis

  People, Lovely, Lucky

  "Mackenzie Davis Talks WHAT IF, Doing Anything for Her Job, Making Out with Adam Driver, Her Monster-Making Hobby, HALT AND CATCH FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.

  Elaine Stritch

  Needs, Wow, Talent

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh.

  Patrick Stump

  Gnarly, Cold Hearted, Naked

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• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  Tamala Jones

  People, Mexican, Cheese

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• I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Games, Play

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• I don't need some jerk like Romney, Santorum, Obama, Bush, Clinton or the rest of them telling me that they're my leaders. They couldn't lead me across the street.

  Gerald Celente

  Leader, Needs, Clinton

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• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Understanding, Doe, World

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• Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

  Freya Stark

  Change, Wise, Men

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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