Disservice Quotes - Page 4

• The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.

  Mike DeWine

  Issues, People, Judging

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Addiction, Doe

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• One of our priorities when doing "March" is to sort of undo what we feel is the disservice done by what we call the Nine Words Problem. Which is that most American kids, whatever they do learn about the movement, especially in school, is usually limited to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream." And so there's sort of a layer of unreality; there's not a sense of continuity.

  Nate Powell

  Dream, Kings, School

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Real, Errors

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• I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moon, Thinking, Worry

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• there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both.

  Tina Fey

  Fall, Mean, Here I Am

  "She's the Boss: Tina Fey on Sarah Palin, Sexism, and More" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 5, 2011.

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• The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

  John Green

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Pain

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• Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Team, Past

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

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• We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Inspirational Life, Age, Old Age

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• Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

  Ted Turner

  Important, Looks, Defeat

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

  Margaret Cho

  Color, Political, Silence

  "Margaret Cho Has Gone 'PsyCHO': Talking Donald Trump, Surviving Rape & More". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

  George Jonas

  Clueless, Mean, People

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Ideas, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.

  Chris Paine

  Thinking, Oil, Car

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "Are you an environmentalist or not?" The question doesn't make any sense.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

  Thomas Sowell

  School, College, People

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• I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

  Paul Haggis

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the idea of diversification. Because I just think the whole concept is literally almost insane. It emphasizes feeling good about not having your investment results depart very much from average investment results. But why would you get on the bandwagon like that if somebody didn't make you with a whip and a gun?

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Gun, Intelligent

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• I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Thinking, Institutions

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.

  Chris Hardwick

  Lying, Stupid, Long

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.223, Penguin

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• Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.

  Peter Turnley

  Inspiration, Talking, Ideas

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• We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.

  Donald Trump

  Humanity, Middle East, Done

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Law, Doe

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• What you don't want is to repeat a formula over and over or impose a formula to a movie that...when you impose yourself and you impose a formula and you're not open to explore and to find what is right for the movie, I think you're doing a disservice to the story and what you're trying to express.

  Emmanuel Lubezki

  Thinking, Trying, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• If we`re going get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people that sacrificed a lot.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. May 15, 2015.

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