Crass Quotes

• It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

  Damien Hirst

  Love, Ideas

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• I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  Edith Wharton

  Beauty, America, Despair

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

  Mel Torme

  Talking, Years, Lasts

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• Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Brain, Noise, Chance

  Ellsworth Barnard, Edwin Arlington ROBINSON (1969). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, New York Macmillan 1952.

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• Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

  James Bridie

  Ignorance, Character, Boredom

  James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

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• This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Fun, Gauges, Excess

  "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

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• It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Lust, Proof

  William Faulkner (2011). “Selected Short Stories”, p.270, Modern Library

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• I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

  Mario Cantone

  Rude, Obnoxious, Contemptuous

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• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.

  Jedediah Bila

  White, Dwarves, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

  Rodney Crowell

  Heart, Advice, Compromise

  Song: This Too Will Pass

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• All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

  Pope John Paul II

  Want, Firsts, Materialism

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• I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Arrogant, Coarse

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

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• I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

  Alexander McQueen

  Thinking, I Can

  "The Real McQueen" by Susannah Frankel, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 1, 200.

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• White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.

  Chris Crass

  White, People, Taught

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• We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

  Chris Crass

  Fighting, Free Education, Needs

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• I need somebody to Trump-xplain(ph) this, because I don`t understand it.I`ve heard people defend him about making fun of a disability, making fun of John McCain, making fun of women - a woman`s face.I just wanted to hear somebody defend this as well, because it just never ends. No one will ever stop defending the crass stuff he says.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Fun, People, Needs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.

  George Saunders

  New York, Mean, Heart

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Ideas, Oil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.

  Ben Lerner

  Past, Contemporary Fiction, Historical

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

  Dean Norris

  Military, Nice, Guy

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

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• The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

  Shashi Tharoor

  People, Revolutionary, Enough

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

  Andrew Weil

  Attitude, Believe, Garden

  "One Simple Resolution: Gardening" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

  Karen Tei Yamashita

  Imagination, Cheesy, Fascination

  Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

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• I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Home, Cutting, Boys

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• We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

  Jonathon Porritt

  Moving, Needs, Materialism

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