Horrific Quotes - Page 2

• Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

  Trevor Phillips

  Children, Yards, Parks

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• Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

  Gideon Raff

  Sorry, Kids, Years

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• We’re all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken.

  Angie Harmon

  Heart, Broken, Wonderful

  "‘Rizzoli & Isles’ star Angie Harmon to lesbian fans: Sorry, I’m not Angie Hormone" By Margaret Eby, www.nydailynews.com. August 18, 2013.

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• There are some things I like about L.A. You can have a really healthy lifestyle, and I love running with the dogs on the beach. It's just the social scene is horrific!

  Mischa Barton

  Running, Dog, Beach

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• I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

  Diane Cilento

  Teacher, People, Taught

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• Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Can Do, Adulthood

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

  Matthew Lillard

  Hard Times, People, Watches

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Letting Go, Song, Guitar

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• You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Names, Jokes, I Can

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• I
  would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young
  girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some
  people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being
  created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those
  magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.

  Penelope Cruz

  Girl, Teenage, People

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• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  Ulrich Beck

  September 11, Wave, Enormous

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• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Events, Century, Ends

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• Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Zero, Thinking, Passivity Is

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

  John F. Kerry

  Mass Destruction, Guarantees That, Hussein

  John F. Kerry's Speech to the floor of the Senate, Congressional Record, November 9, 1997.

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• Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.

  Randall Terry

  Baby, Government, Order

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• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there's sort of the expectation that you're super-strong superwoman but you're just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Strong, Talking

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

  Charles Ferguson

  Jail, Years, Forgive Me

  "Charles Ferguson’s Oscar Speech Rips Wall Street: ‘Inside Job’ Director Levels Criticism During Acceptance". www.huffingtonpost.com. Februrary 28, 2011.

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• When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

  Jackie Stewart

  Running, Weekend, Errors

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• I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

  Justin Halpern

  Loss, Winning, Married

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• I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Children, Doors, Faces

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• My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Good Day, Nazi Concentration Camps

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned" by Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. July 2002.

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• Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Baby, Twins, Lost

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• Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

  Meg Rosoff

  Life Is, Horror, Absolutes

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