Cynical Quotes - Page 18

• If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

  Moby

  Country, Jobs, Blame

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• I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising evidence that the new generation not only lacks faith in communism anymore, they think it’s a joke. They’re very cynical about their leadership and they want democratic change.

  Larry Diamond

  Running, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

  J Mascis

  Nice, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.

  Hillary Clinton

  Clever, Believe, Fall

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• Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Feelings, Literature

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• There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

  Max Lerner

  Calendars, Crime, Sucker

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• How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Angel, Past, Men

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• What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

  Lou Gerstner

  Promise, Vision, Trying

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• It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

  Gerhard Richter

  Witty, Art, Talking

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• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Song, Writing, Forever

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Forever, Healthy

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• When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.

  Greg Lake

  Heart, Play, Differences

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• You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

  Richard Rohr

  Eye, Negative, World

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.

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• If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

  Julian Baggini

  Fun, Two, Might

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

  Glen Hansard

  Air, Music Is, Poisoning

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• I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

  MyAnna Buring

  Thinking, Fans, Ifs

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• Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

  Nigel Cole

  Believe, Television, Sentimental

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• If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

  Michelle Forbes

  People, Unhappy, Groups

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• Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

  Robbie Williams

  Love, Passion, Love Is

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• I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Business, Mad

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• My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

  Robbie Williams

  Religious, Religion, Keep The Faith

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• I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.

  Peter Greenaway

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "Maybe I'm too clever". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2004.

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• Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Waiting, Flying, Sentimental

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• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  Kamala Harris

  Dream, Logic, Romney

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• You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

  Merle Shain

  Men, Cynicism

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