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• I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

  Rod Stewart

  Complaints, Forty

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• Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

  Cher

  Sometimes, Complaints, Feels

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• We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stars, Circus, Truth Is

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• They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

  Little Richard

  Noses, Littles, Stuff

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• With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!

  Sarah Ferguson

  Sight, Smell, Cooking

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• When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

  Gloria Swanson

  Stories, Bills, Should

  Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 22 July 1950

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• If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Complaints, My Friends, Ifs

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

  Maureen Reagan

  Political, Complaints, Ideals

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• It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

  Chaz Bono

  Mother, Mean, People

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

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• I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

  Charles Laughton

  Elephants, Faces, Complaints

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

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• I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

  Robin Williams

  Zoos, Gone, Monkeys

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• I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

  Marlon Brando

  Eye, Pigs, Faces

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

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

  Justina Chen

  Broken, Accepting What Is, Action

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• Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.328, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Past, People, Wish

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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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• 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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• I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

  E. W. Howe

  Believe, Fighting, Grumbling

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• Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Betrayal, Weakness, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!

  Zig Ziglar

  Thanksgiving, Meaningful, Grateful

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• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Tradition, Nineteenth Century

  The Observer, November 26, 1989.

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• No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

  Ira Hayes

  Women, Speech, Public Speaking

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• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Men, Joy

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