Bullshit Quotes - Page 22

• I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

  Joe

  Thinking, Self, Stories

  "Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate". Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, CRCRadio.net, 2002.

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• You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

  Martin Scorsese

  Home, Mafia, Church

  "Mean Streets". www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

  Joe Rogan

  Civilization, Foundation, Built

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• There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

  Amanda Palmer

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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• She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

  Max Barry

  Mean, People, Perfect

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• You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Bad Ass, Mind

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• Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

  Gillian Flynn

  Fighting, Men, Giving

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.41, Broadway Books

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• My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Editors, Advice

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• We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

  Scott Lynch

  Believe, Hard Work, Deception

  Scott Lynch (2008). “The Lies of Locke Lamora: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dark, Mushrooms, Growing

  Terry Pratchett (2007). “Making Money”, Harper

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• It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?

  John Green

  Hate, Kids, Survival

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.278, Penguin

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• I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

  John Green

  Encouragement, Funeral, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.273, Penguin

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• I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kings, Wine, Mind

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• [about being a father] I don't really remember what it was like before. Whatever I had going on, it was bullshit. It wasn't important. It's kind of a nice thing about being a dad. My identity is really about them now, and what I can do for them, so it sort of takes the pressure off of your own life. What am I going to do, who am I? Who cares, you've got to get your kids to school. So I like it that way.

  Louis C. K.

  Dad, Nice, School

  "Louis C.K. is more upset by people being mean to Tracy Morgan than homophobia". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.

  Heath Ledger

  Couple, Years, People

  Newsweek, July 10, 2000.

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• I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

  Scott Eastwood

  Stars, Kids, Men

  "Scott Eastwood Revealed". Interview with Priya Rao, www.townandcountrymag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I mean, let's face it, it's 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I was saying earlier, there's just no denying the impact that showing people the truth can have. It allows people to understand themselves, and when you understand yourself you can understand the people around you. And then you can begin to let go of all the bullshit that leads into things like world wars, racism, stereotypes, and bigotry.

  Gale Harold

  Letting Go, War, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

  John Waters

  Believe, Cop, Invention

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• What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Whales, Guy

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Emotional luggage nothing of it, I don't check bags, I just carry on, leave that bullshit in the past

  Curren$y

  Past, Emotional, Bags

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• Everything really needs to be paraben-free for me. I mean, because if I’m going to smoke cigarettes, then I need to be aware of all the other bullshit I’m putting into my body.

  Erin Wasson

  Mean, Needs, Body

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• Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

  Don King

  Men, Jail, Boxing

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• We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.

  Thom Yorke

  Issues, Listening, Trying

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• The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses.

  Thom Yorke

  Hands, Differences, People

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