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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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• Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Depressing, Two

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

  David Allen

  Thinking, People, Done

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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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• 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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• Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

  Donald A. Norman

  Confusion, Forget, Complexity

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.4, MIT Press

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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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• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Literature, Bores

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• Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

  Ajahn Brahm

  Faults, Findings, Solutions

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• You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.

  Zach Braff

  Play, Careers, Black

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• You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

  Zach Braff

  People, Black, Plantations

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• Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, Garden, People

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• The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Faith, Wisdom, Religious

  "Arpilei Tohar" by Abraham Isaac Kook, (p. 2), 1914.

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• We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

  Rob Delaney

  Years, Space, People

  Rob Delaney (2013). “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.
  The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

  Guy Finley

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 21, 2016

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• Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, People, Boredom

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

  Clarence Thomas

  Uncles, Years, Complaints

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• I can't get no respect.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  No Respect, Complaints, I Can

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