Aggravation Quotes - Page 5

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

  Patricia Highsmith

  Writing, People, Decline

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• I decline to accept the end of man.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
  My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
  Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
  Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Cousin, Rap, Sleep

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• Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous,
  Always misbehaving and mischeivous,
  Causing aggravation, I'll never pause,
  Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

  Busta Rhymes

  Rap, Hip Hop, Pushing

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• Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

  Tillie Olsen

  Reality, Surface, Degrade

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.45, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

  Lorrie Fair

  Soccer, Player, Practice

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• A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Education, School, Writing

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

  Donna Tartt

  Challenges, Literature, Way

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• Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Long, Congress, Copyright

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

  Oswald Spengler

  Peace, War, Long

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “Hour Decision”

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• One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

  Anita Hill

  School, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

  C.P. Snow

  People, Advertising, Appeals

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• Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

  Peter Coyote

  Healthy, Way, Environment

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• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

  Rita Dove

  Reading, Library, Want

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• It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

  John Prescott

  Moving, Administration, Decline

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• The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Believe, Men, Plant

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

  Tony Randall

  Thinking, Awards, People

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• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Murder, Crime

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• Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

  Robert Byrd

  Approval Rating, Appreciate, Wonder

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• China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

  Mark Mobius

  Relationship, Differences, Reason

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• All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Language, Birth, Decline

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.44, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Struggle, Literature

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Blessing, Degradation

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

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• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

  Joey Skaggs

  Stories, Release, Duty

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• No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

  Cofer Black

  Organization, Groups, Plot

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