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• If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Hangover, Two

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• The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

  Henry James

  Fear, Waiting, Risk

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• You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.

  Mary Lawson

  Fear, Fall, Fate

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• I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

  Roger Daltrey

  Art, Live Life, Age

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• I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

  Mark Gatiss

  Swim, Leisure, Used

  "What I see in the mirror: Mark Gatiss" by Mark Gatiss, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Evil, Expectations

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.87, Lulu.com

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• If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.

  Penny Lancaster

  Would Be, Too Much, Potatoes

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

  Robert Montgomery

  Uplifting, Ocean, Iron

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Sky, Tree

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• Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate, Heart, Pride

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• I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Country, Thinking, People

  "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Fun, Simple, Men

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

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• I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.

  Kajol

  Mean, Talking, People

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• Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

  John Denver

  Divorce, World

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• I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

  Amanda Bynes

  Interesting, Paper, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Animal, Race

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• I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

  Jane Goodall

  Decision, Political, Trying

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• It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

  Paul Davies

  Regret, Discovery, Problem

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• Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

  Michael Landon

  Important, Littles, Moments

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• The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

  John Burroughs

  Hate, Moon, Apples

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• It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

  William Morris Hunt

  Pain, Fall, Giving

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• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Class, Excluded, Concepts

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• I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

  Tim Roth

  Function, Invited

  "Tim Roth: who's the daddy?". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2012.

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• What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Cities, House

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 686-88, The Bee, No, IV. A City Night-Piece, 1922.

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• As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sunshine, Clouds, Storm

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.199

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