Disturbing Quotes - Page 6

• My character [in Ted Bundy] was unaware of all the murders that were being committed by him, so I kind of tried to keep myself out of it and kind of keep an innocent point of view from it. The hard scenes for me were the sex scenes just because there's like sexual deviance going on and there was stuff that he want her to do and that was really disturbing.

  Boti Bliss

  Sex, Character, Views

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since '96, there really hasn't been progress on specific commitments that have been made. Perhaps most disturbing is this: that the United States and France in particular, since 1996, have expanded the range of circumstances under which they might use - they say they might use - nuclear weapons.

  John Burroughs

  Commitment, Might Use, Progress

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• If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Ifs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean, literally on the stage and off the stage, around the convention about women, about minorities, about Muslims, about immigrants.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Mean, Minorities

  "Matt Lauer Presses Chelsea Clinton On What Her Father Would Be Called if Hillary Elected". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 28, 2016.

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• It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

  Jayni Chase

  Planets, Humans

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.

  Zicheng Hong

  Dark, Light, Silence

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• It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

  Beck

  Song, Stupid, Party

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

  Rosanne Cash

  Book, Piano, Childhood

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• I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

  Randall Robinson

  Powerful, America, Leaving

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

  Freida Pinto

  Dark, Light, Skins

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• Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.

  Watchman Nee

  Would Be, Able, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Two, Islam

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.

  John Reader

  Men, Long, Belief

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• In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

  Karl Kraus

  Dark, Doe, Actors

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Life, Self, Ideas

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• Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

  Alfred Adler

  Mean, Water, Tears

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• I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Style, Working Together

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.

  Frederick Barthelme

  Sweet, Book, Mean

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• There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Joy, Culture, Poverty

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Children, Thinking, Irritation

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• To Americans Boris Vian has long been one of the hidden glories of French literature. In I Spit on Your Graves, he wrote an utterly untypical work, a blast from his Id that may well have killed him. Even now, with misogyny disguised as racial justice, its venom remains potent and disturbing, in equal parts appalling and riveting. It is a singular book, not for the squeamish, and not to be passed by.

  Jim Krusoe

  Book, Long, Justice

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• If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.

  Alex Karpovsky

  Cutting, People, Rooms

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

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• It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

  Jack Nicholson

  Children, Past, People

  "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.

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• If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

  Kin Hubbard

  Business, Government, Democracy

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• I very much believe in things unseen, both of positive and destructive energy, and I have never seen The Exorcist through from start to finish. I find it too realistic, frankly, and too disturbing for me. I absolutely believe in spiritual warfare and have experienced it in my life. So I respect Mr. Friedkin's extraordinary success with that, but it's not a picture I'll ever see.

  Ashley Judd

  Spiritual, Believe, Unseen

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