Dangerous Quotes - Page 39

• Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.

  David Sedaris

  Games, Santa, Snowball

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• If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women, that your children are at risk of riding that freight train straight into hell or an opium den. Then I'd parlay that fear into a chain of overpriced "rehab" centers that can cure them and shake Satan from their souls. But I am not that ambitious. I am a drunk.

  Doug Stanhope

  Children, Lying, Marijuana

  Source: hightimes.com

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• Putin regards me as the most dangerous person, and when they were releasing me from jail, the only condition was that I leave the country. And when they did push me out of the country, to make sure that I wouldn't come back, they opened up a criminal case against me - a new one.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Country

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to teach citizens how to think better, how to think critically, how to tell truth from falsehood, how to make a judgment about when they're being lied to and duped and when they're not, how to evaluate scientific teaching. Losing that training of citizens is an extremely dangerous road to go down.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Teaching, Thinking, Training

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary. They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous. Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.

  Adam Michnik

  Country, Winning, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

  Lawrence Wright

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of the state. The only reasonable way to correct the situation today is not to go after big businesses, but to give breathing room to medium and small businesses. That means protecting citizens and small entrepreneurs from arbitrary rule and from corruption. It means investing the revenues from the national natural resources into the national infrastructure, education and health care. And we must learn to do so without shameful theft and embezzlement.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

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• I don't want to be influenced as to what I write in the next book, to hear those voices in my head when I'm writing. The idea of second-guessing your reader is dangerous, trying to please some notional reader looking over your shoulder, instead of just yourself.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Book, Writing, Over You

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

  David Bailey

  Favour, Trendy, Fallen

  "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.

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• There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Media, Information

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• I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Team, Son

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

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• When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

  Elton John

  People, Important, Persona

  "Elton John Thinks Miley Cyrus Is Like A Candle In The Wind". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hate, Ideas, Paris

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• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  L. Neil Smith

  Tired, Exercise, Rights

  "I'm Tired (With Apologies to Pearl Bailey and Madeleine Kahn)". Second annual Liberty Round Table Conclave near Estes Park, Colorado, July 2, 1998.

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• Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

  Sydney Smith

  Mistake, Errors, Alliances

  Rev. Sydney Smith (1855). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy”, p.16

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• When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Democracy, Dangerous Things

  "Opinion Roundup: Edward Snowden And The NSA Leaks". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 10, 2013.

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• In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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• I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.998, Penguin

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• Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Taken, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 02, 2015

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• Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, School, Should Have

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• In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

  Merrill Markoe

  Guitar, Play, Guy

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• In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Discipline, Imagination

  Sula (1973)

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• After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Writing, Ideas

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

  Darren Shan

  Hunters, Littles, Dusk

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• Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

  Guy de Maupassant

  Thinking, People, Long

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