Cynical Quotes - Page 27

• I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe.

  Michael Buble

  People, Negative

  "Michael Buble On Fishing, Sinatra And Auto-Tune". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 28, 2013.

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• The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

  Frank Dane

  Love, Heart, Way

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• IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Games, Political

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Careers, Use, Kind

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

  Paul Kagame

  Want, Poor, Again And Again

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

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• Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

  Christopher Parker

  Fun, Attitude, Procrastination

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• Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

  Pete Seeger

  Inspirational, Education, Humor

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• Sam Kinison was one of the most compulsive people I'd ever seen. James Belushi was that way, and Chris Farley was that way. He was incredibly talented and made me laugh so hard, and there was nothing he wouldn't say. Such a unique, amazing, cynical, realistic, but still optimistic look at life he had. It was great fun to get to know him.

  Tim Matheson

  Fun, Optimistic, Unique

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the new media landscape, nor cynical. But what's indisputable is the experimental energy that digital forms are unleashing. Among my students and among up-and-coming artists, I find myself startled by the creative responses to the technological, environmental, and political upheavals of our time.

  Rob Nixon

  Artist, Creative, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

  Walt Disney

  Past, Yesterday, Bored

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• It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

  Moby

  Spiritual, Practice, Drunk

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.

  Ezra Klein

  Campaigns, Helping, Building

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• The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq.

  Dave Abrams

  Real, War, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

  James Norton

  Character, Judging, Able

  "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

  Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

  Views, People, Feelings

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• Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual, my first instinct is to be cynical and think, "oh yeah, one of those again." You see so much of it see in "spiritual culture" and people get very excited about it. It's all very "hoo haw."

  Brad Warner

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That's why I've stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.

  Brad Warner

  Long, Path, Gone

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and become famous for it and then think maybe they can get in on it. Maybe they're not quite as cynical as that and there's some sincerity about them, but they don't really get it so they just imitate what they've seen from people who've done it before and of course you can make big money that way.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.

  Richard Patrick

  Kind, Sometimes

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Drama, Hands, Dysfunction

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Media, Subjectivity, Pessimistic

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

  Spike Milligan

  Eggs, Politics, Down And

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• If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Mba, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We live in a cynical world now, and it's nice to be part of entertainment that is hopeful and heartfelt and wears its heart on its sleeve, but isn't saccharine. It's real. It's grounded.

  Mandy Moore

  Real, Nice, Heart

  "Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia Open Up About That Nude Scene in This Is Us". Interview With Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. September 20, 2016.

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• I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Creating, America

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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