Dangerous Quotes - Page 29

• It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Down And, Slippery Slope

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.

  J Tillman

  Thinking, Achieve, Aesthetic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Horse, Ocean

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

  Doug Stanhope

  Disease, Easy, Pot

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• The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

  Lindsey Graham

  Fossils, Energy, Alternatives

  "McCain Collects Alaskan Stories of Global Warming", www.foxnews.com. August 18, 2005.

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• If you want to do something dangerous... Don't tell your girlfriend!

  Christopher Titus

  Girlfriend, Want, Danger

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the way we looked at the situation was that the world we live in is a dangerous place. There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true.

  Sam Smith

  Sea, World, Way

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• We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

  Richard Prince

  Art, Impulse, Our Thoughts

  Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press

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• The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.

  Jurgen Teller

  Mother, Suicide, Talking

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

  Arianna Huffington

  Kids, School, Littles

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• Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Government, Enemy, Citizens

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• [The media's] fantasy of an America bristling with racists allows them to portray any criticism of our massively incompetent and dangerous president as just another sad episode of oh-so-typical white racism.

  Ann Coulter

  Media, White, America

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• Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.

  Joe Klein

  Taken, Fighting, Cutting

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• Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.

  Barry Crimmins

  Marijuana, People, Drug

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• [The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.

  George Will

  Loyalty, Pride, Israel

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• Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

  Bill Cosby

  People, World, Mediocre

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• [The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

  Alexander Bickel

  Government, Branches, Judiciary

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• When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.

  Moby

  New York, Growing Up, Artist

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Difficult Questions, Imagination, Culture

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.

  Lauren Groff

  School, Talking, People

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but at first you gotta put blinders on or you'll overthink things. I think it's dangerous, by the way, to do a lot of talks about your art, to do so much talking and so little making. You get the wrong idea about yourself.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.

  Biz Stone

  Ideas, Creating, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The criticisms that are often presented to us by some in the conservative Jewish community about our Palestinian version are: first, that the U.S. is not in conflict with "Palestine" (quotes are theirs) and second, that Conflict Kitchen should counter the Palestinian viewpoints it presents with pro-Israeli viewpoints, otherwise we are spreading dangerous propaganda.

  Jon Rubin

  Community, Kitchen, Criticism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where it had essentially become an extension of the government, like in Iraq, people tend to see a journalist as an agent of his or her government. That can be dangerous if the United States military is occupying their country, or aligned with their enemies.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Country, Military, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.

  Matthew Zapruder

  School, Yearbook, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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