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• Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

  Douglas Coupland

  Kids, Today, Used

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Love You, Optimistic, Looks

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• I've always believed comics should bring in things like that, and they haven't for a very long time, in general. You always get people complaining, "What's it going to look like in 10 years' time?" It's ridiculous. Everything is going to age. If you try and avoid dating it, you just end up with something that doesn't mean anything.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Mean, Long, People

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• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

  J. I. Packer

  Today, Ministers, Preaching

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• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Umpires, Politician

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• A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Player, Men

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• Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Self, People

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• News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

  Frank Miller

  Objectivity, News, Propaganda

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• As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long, Alcohol, Praise

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• It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

  Lisa Williams

  People, Easy, Doing Good

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• Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

  Lisa Gardner

  Men, Laughing, Wimps

  Lisa Gardner (2004). “The Perfect Husband: An FBI Profiler Novel”, p.10, Bantam

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• The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Medicine, Giving, Secret

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• Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Tree, Paradise

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Ideas, Needs

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• You can't complain when people appreciate what you're doing.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  People, Appreciate

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• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Circus, Tvs, Politician

  "Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World" by British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959.

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• But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Directors, Advertising

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• Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Mean, Humble

  Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832

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• Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,' which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war and its 'necessities' gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that war against Hitler would help the Jews were wrong. And the people in Germany who, once the war had begun, still thought of complaining, protesting, resisting, were betting on Germany's losing the war. It was a long bet. Not many made it.

  Milton Mayer

  War, Winning, Government

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• They just love to complain about me because I'm an American who gets more press than their Canadian players.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Player, Presses

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• If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, “Hey, can I have that?

  Sophia Amoruso

  Simple, Mind, Frustrated

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#Girlboss”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

  Alan Redpath

  Mean, Self, Hands

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• You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.

  Paul Orfalea

  Opportunity, Looks, Problem

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