Outrageous Quotes - Page 14

• I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

  Evan Longoria

  Goal, Realistic, Realistic Goals

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• Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

  Learned Hand

  Upset, Taste, Furniture

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Real, Years

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• Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.

  Stanley Cavell

  Philosophy, Ambition, Foundation

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• When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Girl, Needs, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has needed a tactical enemy that it can go out and fight in the field in a shooting war. Since 1945, these enemies have been created and appeared as North Korea, North Vietnam, Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq and now Colombia. On another level, however, the US needs a strategic enemy that will justify outrageous expenditures of capital for strategic weapon systems like ICBMs, Trident submarines and "Star Wars" missile defence systems.

  Michael Ruppert

  Stars, War, Fighting

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• I bought a dress a few years ago for £2,500. It was outrageous and not the kind of money you want to be spending. I had a mad moment that day.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Years, Mad, Want

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a double-reverse way is actually totally right. I don't really like where there's a story and you lay a few jokes on top of it.

  Matt Nix

  Character, Stories, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• I want to stand out. After my career is over, I want people to say, 'He was different.' It's not to be outrageous. I just want people to know that when I played ball, I was having fun.

  Eli Manning

  Fun, Careers, People

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• So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Doctors, Abortion, Patient

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• My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Goal

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• My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.

  Selma Blair

  Girl, Party, Years

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

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• London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

  Jeff Beck

  Ducks, Want, London

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• When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

  Fred Hoyle

  Young, Regard, Fellows

  Scientific American, March 1995.

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• I don't like to put outrageous titles on young guys' heads, but he could be one of the best at that position. All it's going to take are longevity and health. If he has those two things by his side, he'll be one of the best.

  Nate Burleson

  Two, Guy, Titles

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• English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Blue, Gnarly, Enemy

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.125, Macmillan

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• Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

  Fred Thompson

  Children, Suicidal, Men

  "'New Reagan' ready for star role" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.

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• I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

  Dee Snider

  Names, Way, Form

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

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• I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Email, Groups, Use

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• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

  William Manchester

  Men, Sublime, Noble

  William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”

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• For instance, my friend would never go on the show to air her dirty-laundry. But Tremont is outrageous! I've been watching a lot of clips of "The Jerry Springer Show" on YouTube (I can't tell you how many clips there are!) I get to witness these men going through the process to become women and what they're sharing. My character is pre-op. She's had the breast augmentation but still got "the goods" down there.

  Max von Essen

  Dirty, Character, Men

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

  David Crosby

  Music, Play, Dancing

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• Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

  Howard Dean

  Phrases, Aliens, Illegal

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• I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Alaska, Views, Wish

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• This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  September 11, Violence, United States

  "Arafat Horrified by Attacks, but Thousands of Palestinians Celebrate; Rest of World Outraged", www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2001.

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