Blunt Quotes - Page 6

• I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Sweet, Art, Stupid

  Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

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• Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

  Jimmy Wales

  Girl, People, Wikipedia

  "Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership". Foundation-l mailing list, lists.wikimedia.org. October 23, 2005.

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• Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

  Charles Lyell

  Change, Science, Curiosity

  Sir Charles Lyell (1837). “Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation”, p.305

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• Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

  Josh Hartnett

  Hands, Tools, Kind

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• There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Empathy, Feelings

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.76, Delphi Classics

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• Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
  Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt
  Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump...
  Lala la la lala la laaaa

  B-Real

  Rap, Hands, Hip Hop

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• A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

  Ray Mears

  Blades, Dangerous

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• Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Blow, Belief

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• Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead because of this government. If you are too stupid to turn things around with your vote, there are people out here like me who are willing to turn things around with guns, force and violence. We hope our method does not become necessary.

  Hal Turner

  Country, Sorry, Stupid

  "'Assassination' Schedule Announced For Congress". www.wnd.com. December 6, 2006.

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• Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.

  Gary North

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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• Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

  Laozi

  Gold, Jade, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.

  Katherine Boo

  School, Years, Cities

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.216, Random House

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• To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

  John Ford

  Artist, Pay, Great Art

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• A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

  Grand Puba

  Rap, Hip Hop, Want

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• He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Mind, Foolish

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1131, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids to enable such subtle bodies [air, light, &c.] to make a well-defined impression on organs as blunt as ours; that it is laudable to encourage investigation but to hold back conclusion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Science, Light

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• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  Nas

  Couple, Voice, Hip Hop

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

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• Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

  Michael Botticelli

  Epidemics, Alcohol, Drug

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mistake, Ignorance, Cutting

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• I see that I have been engaged to Emily [Blunt] without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through 'Hello' magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous.

  Michael Buble

  Thinking, Asking, Magazines

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". Interview with the Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. May 25, 2007.

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• Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Fate, Destiny, Thinking

  Anthony Horowitz (2007). “Ark Angel”, p.212, Penguin

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• (Talk about Kelly Pickler)"She's like a sister.People say we're such opposites, but that's what makes us such good friends. She's incredibly blunt. I love that about her. If some guy has said or done something to me she doesn't like, she'll grab my cell phone and say, 'I'm deleting his number.

  Taylor Swift

  Good Friend, Phones, Cells

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• Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wind, Promise, Excuse

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.23, Bantam

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• So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?" "Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Jobs, Believe, School

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