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• If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fear, People, Doe

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• No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Matter, Facts

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• Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

  Joe Pesci

  Mad, Max, Irritated

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• Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

  John Tilbury

  Humorous, Giving, Vitality

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• What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Football, Abortion, Political

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• WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Perspective, Germany, Wikileaks

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• There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

  Agatha Christie

  Conscious, Tact

  agatha christie (1941). “n or m?”

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• There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our century, it should have been this seemingly small and unimportant Jewish problem that had the dubious honor of setting the whole infernal machine in motion.

  Hannah

  Should Have, Political, Honor

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• The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Sadness, Hands

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Atheist, House, I Can

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• A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Business, Laughter

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

  Oscar Wilde

  Natural, Being Natural, Knows

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

  Ian Anderson

  Children, Terrible, Small Child

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• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Want

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• They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stupid, Safety, Perfect

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.77, Xist Publishing

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• There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Feet, Soul, Feelings

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Technology, People

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• Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

  Edward Ruscha

  Clouds, Airports, Blue

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• Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

  Harry Shearer

  People, Lines, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Bombarded By, People, Bombarded

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• No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

  Nick Moran

  Character, Thinking, Play

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

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• On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Articles, Forgettable

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• Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

  Billy Eichner

  Sound, Actors, Outgoing

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• Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

  David Tang

  I Love Him, Men, Thinking

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