Cynical Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Skills, Kind, Easy

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Being Happy, Breathing, Ifs

  "Utopia on the Hudson". Interview With Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.

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• My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

  Dave Allen

  Church, Twenties, Accepting

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• I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.

  Les Dawson

  Blood, Giving, Wife

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• In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.

  Conrad Burns

  Winning, Thinking, Two

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• The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

  George Sanders

  Art, New York, Drama

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

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• A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  Understanding Philosophy ch. 3 (1973)

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• I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

  Yue Minjun

  Meaningful, Chinese, Trying

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• Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Hip Hop, Sound

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• If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Work, Personality, Hard

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• The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Way, Cold

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• For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

  Joe Klein

  Journalism, Cynicism, Mediocre

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• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
  
  Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Being Yourself, Exercise, Heroism

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

  Drew Barrymore

  Grateful, Thinking, Optimism

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• I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

  Ed Helms

  Persons, Jaded

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• The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

  Russell Jacoby

  Want, Outsiders, Bread

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• I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wise, Hell, Felt

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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