Horrific Quotes - Page 3

• I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.

  Samir Geagea

  Squares, Air, Years

  "Samir, Sitrida Geagea Airborne for Month-Long Recuperation Abroad". Lebanese Forces.com, July 26, 2005.

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• Obviously radical Islamic terrorism is a big problem, but there are all sorts of kinds of horrific terrorism that take place.

  Jake Tapper

  Islamic, Kind, Problem

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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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• 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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• You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

  Mira Nair

  Home, Cities, Two

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

  Meg Rosoff

  Life Is, Horror, Absolutes

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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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• 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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• We have important things to talk to the Russians about, despite their meddling in our elections. I hope they're talking about a way to eventually end this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria, end that war. The Russians have more leverage than we do. I hope they're talking about the fact that, if Kim Jong-un's long-range missiles can reach Alaska one day, they can also reach Vladivostok.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Important, One Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for ripping people out of their homeland and bringing them here in chains. There is no adequate apology for the ongoing horrific legacy of racism.

  Harriet Lerner

  Apology, Racism, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear a scary sound, you're not picturing yourself getting the girl, you're not picturing yourself winning the prize and becoming a hero. What makes you scared is the fear that you're gonna die, or that something horrific is gonna happen. So while I'm not opposed to happy ending, or wherever the story is naturally supposed to go-I do end up finding that I like movies where you almost end up feel, at best, that the character survived it more than championed over it.

  Bryan Bertino

  Girl, Hero, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not so out of touch that I don't see how young people interact today.It was horrific. And that's an example of something that it's not as if that's the first time that a hate crime has taken place in this country. Hate crimes have been taking place for hundreds of years in this country, but it's there on video.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Hate, Taken

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Jews allow to steal lands from Palestinians, only because they are Jews, and those are Palestinian. I want to repeat it, because people here in America don't believe it. We have a new law that settlers allowed to steal private lands of Arabs and take it to Jews. This is an official law. And now they're going to ban everyone who criticize a pure apartheid law. So, in a way, it's horrific. It's only everyone who stand for civil right in the minimum level - liberals, not radical - is not allowed to Israel.

  Udi Aloni

  Believe, Israel, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what you're dealing with here is "What does it mean to be in love with people who are your equals?" And that's a very beautiful thing that we should cherish, but it's also incredibly tough in some ways.

  Stephen Marche

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than we think. And there is the prospect that this is where we are, which is an horrific thought.

  David Brooks

  Powerful, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attention to the victims of chemical warfare. And in both of the Iraq wars, politicians said, "Look at the horrific things that are happening." I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

  Paul Bloom

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Personally, I'm happier than I've ever been. So for me and my tiny little bubble the world is awesome, but I think that the world is in a pretty horrific state, especially at the momet with Syria.

  Edith Bowman

  Thinking, World, Syria

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods, I would probably work with animal rights activism because that's really where my heart lies. I think our relationships with animals are sacred and horrific. I've been a vegetarian since I was sixteen. What God said we are allowed to eat anything that does not have thumbs?

  Lucie Brock-Broido

  Lying, Taken, Heart

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think a nuclear detonation is society-altering in ways that other attacks, even as horrific as 9/11, are not. This isn't because we have power-hungry political leaders, but I think it might be demanded by the people themselves out of fear.

  Valerie Plame

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think I was meant to be a musician who speaks his mind about social justice issues. And I grew up in a lower middle class family, but a family that had enough money to buy a $50 guitar and a $50 amplifier, and had a basement to rehearse in. What I think the global human cost of this horrific poverty is how many Mozarts or curers of cancer are slaving away in the Maquiladoras along the Tijuana border, or in the Indonesian sweat shops? There are billions of people who will never become the people they could be, or the people they were meant to be, due to crushing poverty.

  Tom Morello

  Crush, Cancer, Thinking

  "Tom Morello Leads The Occupy 'Guitarmy'". Interview with Diane Sweet, crooksandliars.com. May 22, 2012.

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• If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions and legislation, this leaves plenty of gray areas, including many of great significance that are rarely discussed: advocacy of imminent war crimes, such as aggression, for example. I think we would all agree that such speech should be protected, despite the often horrific consequences, but it's worth noting that that stretches the doctrine to its limits.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The problem with natural language processing and the thing that really holds the technology back, is that when it crashes and burns, it's horrific. I think we would be in a position to really take a serious look at it, once two things happen. The interesting thing about a dialogue-choice system is that we've devoted so much into all kinds of other systems for processing, and dialogue choices use zero processing. So suddenly, if you want to have a great natural language processor, you need to dial down your graphics to make it work.

  Greg Zeschuk

  Thinking, Technology, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's a vision. Perhaps for white supremacists, you can add the additional storyline that they believe that they are having something taken from them by outsiders, by immigrants. Not only are they losing out and bored, but they think they are victims and that they know who is responsible.

  Garry Kasparov

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview With Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• I would like to trust and believe that the American spirit of resistance will win the day, but I keep having to be this downer Cassandra person in saying that without dismantling this horrific legislative apparatus that has basically given George W. Bush dictatorial power, the spirit of America is not enough. We have to have that spirit, but we have to have tactics and strategies and a movement and a victory.

  Naomi Wolf

  Believe, Winning, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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