Cynical Quotes - Page 23

• The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

  Grant Heslov

  March, Film, Ides Of March

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• The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests against the French embassy, that hasn't ingratiated them to a French nuclear negotiating team that is deeply cynical about the nature of the Iranian regime.

  Karim Sadjadpour

  Nature, Team, Victim

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• Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.

  Steve Goodier

  Disappointment, People, Broken

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• It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle.... The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them-with God's help. So every day, light your small candle.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Struggle, Light

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• It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Political, Groups

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• We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without ever doing it at someone else's expense, and I think that that's a really important thing for kids to realize.

  Jason Segel

  Kids, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, Our World, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

  Gore Vidal

  Problem, Realistic, Seems

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

  Sarah Polley

  Teenager, Acting, Done

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Practicals

  "Iinterview: Zooey Deschanel (FAILURE TO LAUNCH)". www.chud.com. March 9, 2006.

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• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, President

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Acting, Potatoes

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• You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.

  Richard Bach

  Animal, Light, Talking

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

  Maya Angelou

  World, Young, Persons

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.

  Debbie Macomber

  Book, Mean, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.

  Allan Boesak

  Money, Thinking, Two

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  Ugo Betti

  Names, Giving, Mad

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

  Brock Chisholm

  Mother, Years, Six Year Olds

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• Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."

  Robert Davi

  Song, People, Doctrine

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.

  Joss Whedon

  Kind

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Optimist

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Thinking, World, France

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to conservative churches, which, for all their social benightedness, nevertheless do present their congregations with a different view of reality. Second, they are going to Asian religions. Third, they are going to the New Age, which when I'm feeling cynical I refer to as "New Age frivolity," because some of it is rather flaky.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Reality, People

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview With Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• I never expected Star Wars to all of a sudden become like The Matrix and change perspective on things. I respected it trying to stay close to the style of what George Lucas was originally doing. I don't understand how people can hate them. I think even the most cynical person can find something that reminds them of the Star Wars they loved. They're not void of that. Maybe there are holes, but it's like your family: You accept people's shortcomings, and you still love them.

  Kyle Newman

  Hate, War, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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