Awful Quotes

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bored, Waiting For Godot, Inertia

  Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

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• I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

  Chris Martin

  Hair, Care, Being Cool

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• I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

  David Bowie

  Liars, Agree

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.32, Melville House

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• Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

  Gina Barreca

  Thinking, Stories, Chance

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• The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, World, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Giving, Chance

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

  Milton Friedman

  Wind, People, Economics

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• I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

  Sean Lennon

  Thinking, Sound, Matter

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

  Kate Winslet

  Believe, Actresses, Kind

  "Acting Out" by Megan Deem, www.elle.com. September 15, 2007.

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• Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

  Sally Ride

  Busy, Wells, Experiments

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• It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

  Mark Twain

  Running, German Language, Brain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

  Bono

  World, Kind, Conviction

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• Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

  Desmond Tutu

  Humans, Human Beings

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

  Fanny Brice

  People, Laughing, Doe

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• There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

  Fred Frith

  Resources, Concerts

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• A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Angel, Turkeys

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• I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

  William S. Burroughs

  God, Thinking, Religion

  Paris Review Fall 1965

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• For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Like Love, Stories, Lovers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Years, Down And

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.378, Xist Publishing

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• When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.708, Delphi Classics

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• It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

  Lysette Anthony

  Lovely, Wonderful, Used

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• That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

  Joan Leslie

  Availability, Luck, Way

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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