Cynical Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

  Rose Byrne

  Twenties, Narcissism, Realizing

  "EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne is the Girl Next Door in ‘Neighbors’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 6, 2014.

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• If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

  Alan Jackson

  People, Everyday, News

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

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• Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Powerful, Thinking, Anxiety

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• Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

  Peter Drucker

  Vices, Benefits, Matter

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.340, Routledge

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• They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

  Roger Hodgson

  Education, Intellectual, World

  "Logical Song". Song by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, March 1979.

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• It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

  Lance Armstrong

  Children, Cancer, Bravery

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• Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

  David Limbaugh

  Position

  "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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• I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

  Colin Quinn

  Comedian, World, Way

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• I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

  Josh Radnor

  Thinking, Negative, Levels

  "Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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• Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Taken, Buddhism

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• You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Mirrors, Soul

  "Marjane Satrapi: 'A Real Love Story Has To Finish Bad'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.krvs.org. August 18, 2012.

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• EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Swings, Years, Challenges

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• I will never be cynical again about people.

  Dick Ebersol

  People

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• I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

  Ben Stiller

  Character, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Men, Cynicism

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• I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Emotional, Thinking

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• As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Ego, Making Friends

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• We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Attitude, Negative, Hot

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• I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.

  Richard Rohr

  Believe, Reality, Space

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• For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.

  Eli Roth

  Real, Gun, Bells

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• The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, Past, Average

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• Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Nice, Believe, People

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• I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

  David F. Swensen

  Thinking, Awards, Ideas

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