Bullshit Quotes - Page 9

• I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.

  Richard Pryor

  Jumping, Causes, Crosses

  "Song: "Religion"". Comedy album "Craps (After Hours)", 1971.

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• Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

  James Alan Gardner

  Order, Weight, Violence

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• [Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Comedy, Illusion

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• What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

  Matthew Crawford

  Personality, Firsts, Twenties

  Matthew Crawford (2010). “The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunting, Rivers, Lakes

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• One woman I interviewed, Amanda Ghost, said, "Let's not bullshit, there are no women at the top of the music business, and that is a serious problem." And I said, "Yes!" And I didn't shy away from saying that. But I still don't want to be in the firing line. I'm not clever or witty or brave enough to get into the political nitty-gritty with it.

  Laura Marling

  Witty, Clever, Brave

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Wall, Business

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.

  Zadie Smith

  Issues, Essentials, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

  Mark Webber

  Filmmaking

  Source: collider.com

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• This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah, blah, blah, as a fiction movie. Or it can be as awful as a fiction movie!

  Frederick Wiseman

  Class, Interesting, Citizens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.

  Hal Duncan

  Character, Thinking, Long

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• Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.

  Bon Scott

  Guy, Healthy, Use

  Letter to a former band-mate in Fraternity, 'Uncle' John Ayres, c. 1979.

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• When you are famous, you never can be sure why somebody's being nice. You just have to develop a very good sixth sense. I call it my bullshit detector.

  Suzi Quatro

  Nice, Very Good, Sixth Sense

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Roger Ebert

  Wise, Long Ago, Editors

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010”, p.583, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I'm not trying to make any radio hits, or throw any curve ball or any bullshit. I've learned my lesson in life to just do what I love and if people accept it that's great. It's going to be, if you are a Madchild fan, it is going to be me at my purest rawest form. But I have come up with some things that I think are me thinking outside of the box and going to the next level.

  Shane Bunting

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Curves

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.

  Johnny Marr

  Ideas, Singing, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

  Phil Elvrum

  People, Mind, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

  Marc Maron

  Curiosity, Fascination, Fiction

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.

  Ray McKinnon

  Pain, Smart, Talking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You've got to appeal to the pride in people. When a woman is flabby and soft, she's unattractive. When you married a beautiful girl and all of a sudden you start seeing her tits down and her breath stinks and she's not clean anymore and has no pride in herself, you can't love her. You may bullshit yourself, but you can't. Energy makes people beautiful. That's what charisma is.

  Jack LaLanne

  Beautiful, Girl, Pride

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• I've dealt with a lot of bullshit because of the way I look and a lot of misconceptions about what people should be afraid of.

  Gonjasufi

  People, Looks, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

  Nate Silver

  Discipline, Looks, World

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• The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Art, Crazy, Writing

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• Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

  Hugh Howey

  Hero, Winning, Stories

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• She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that quality with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

  Laura Lippman

  Girl, Strong, Smart

  "By a Spider's Thread". Book by Laura Lippman, 2004.

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