Annoying Quotes - Page 13

• I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

  Douglas Coupland

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Source: feathertale.com

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fashion, Psychics, Choices

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.143, Penguin

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• The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Discipline, Demand, Trouble

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• Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.

  Mara Liasson

  Ties, President, Stories

  "Despite Backlash Over Muslim Comments, Supporters Stand By Trump". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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• Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

  Kevin Drum

  Giving, Answers, Speech

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• If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

  Margaret Atwood

  Alive, Ifs

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• If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.

  Randall Munroe

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

  Dave Barry

  People, Accomplishment, Protest

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

  Robert Spencer

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Ridicule

  Robert Spencer (2006). “The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion”, p.13, Regnery Publishing

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• Can you really put a price on annoying two religions at once?

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Two Religions

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• If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.

  Martin Zwilling

  Jobs, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

  Auberon Waugh

  People, World, Sacred

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• So it [3D] is something I'm still learning, it's fresh, so if the budget allows I'll do it again and just see how far it goes because it's the frontier, it's more interesting. It's still expensive, the projection system can be annoying sometimes, it's not really regulated or perfected yet, so it's still expensive. If I do a lower budget I'll just do 2D, but if the budget allows I think I'll try 3D.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

  Evan Davis

  Gay, Thinking, Views

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview With Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, Vegas, Two

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• That cyclone in Burma? That was just me doing the dance to that annoying ass song.

  Zach Braff

  Song, Cyclones, Ass

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• A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends.

  Kin Hubbard

  Advice, Cold, Ifs

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• I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Broadway, Initiative, Members

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• It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

  Brian Bonsall

  Couple, People, Crowds

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• Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Blood, Talking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

  Alan Cooper

  Running, Powerful, Hopeful

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.

  George Lakoff

  Animal, Views, Mind

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• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reading, Progress, Saws

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• He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

  George Steiner

  Mirrors, Looks, May

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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