Bullshit Quotes - Page 6

• When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

  Scott Lynch

  Fall, Sky, Shelter

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1839, Del Rey

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• The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Giving, Trouble, Pep

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• You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

  Sam Lipsyte

  Believe, Thinking, World

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

  Steve Berry

  Believe

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Garden, Self

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

  Jonathan Franzen

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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• These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

  Ben Goldacre

  Running, Culture, Corporations

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• I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'

  Zach Galifianakis

  Bible, People

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• My Facebook page confuses a lot of people. I'll post a Beyoncé Knowles song, and, people are like, "What are you doing?! This is bullshit," and I'm like, "No! Beyoncé is the Linda Ronstadt of our day, you don't understand!"

  Caitlin Rose

  Song, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

  Brad Listi

  Stupid, Media, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where we can, in real time, produce something that holds people accountable. That's an exciting time to be living in.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Technology, People

  "'It felt like the bullsh*t was flowing directly at us': Morgan Spurlock turns fact-checking the outrageous GOP debate into a game". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.salon.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Saws, Investing

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• The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all other forms of work, art, or play.But that's bullshit. Plumbers don't get plumber's block. Teachers don't get teacher's block. Soccer players don't get soccer block. What makes writing different? Nothing. The only difference is that writers feel they have a free pass to give up when writing is hard.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Soccer, Teacher, Art

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• I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

  Jamie McGuire

  Girl, Doors, Routine

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses.

  Jason Fried

  Projection

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• I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff [Man Booker Prize] very much. I think part of it is I can see myself wondering who's doing what and getting jealous, and none of that's healthy for me. So I just don't really.

  Paul Beatty

  Jealous, Men, Thinking

  "Paul Beatty: I See You". Interview With Chris Paul Wolfe, www.guernicamag.com. October 27, 2016.

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• And I guess that in some way I'm falling for you because you are who you are. It's easy to sleep with you because there's no bullshit and you make me feel safe. But this all started because I gave in to a crazy impulse. It doesn't happen very often, and I hadn't planned it.

  Steig Larsson

  Crazy, Fall, Sleep

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• I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

  Melina Marchetta

  Nice, Say Anything, Sitting

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• You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

  Nicole Kidman

  Artist, Play, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man. I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I don't think people realize that we die, we leave here, and either they forget about you or remember you. And how they remember you is up to you. I just want to be remembered as a poet that was open and honest because I wake up every morning and I'm me.

  Drake

  Morning, Honesty, Real

  Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 11, 2011.

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• You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.

  David Weigel

  Needs, Reason, Happens

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 2, 2013.

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• There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Two, Categories, Metals

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• When I first started out in comics they would put me on these Women of Marvel panels, and these young women would come up to me and say, "I really want to write comics but I don't know if I can because I'm told that it's just for guys." I would say, "That's bullshit. That's absolute bullshit. Look at me!" But the one area where we still need to work on is that we need more women of color. That's not common thing yet.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Writing, Guy, Common

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.

  Casey Spooner

  Believe, Cutting, Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Reality, Differences, Knowing

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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