Jerk Quotes - Page 10

• In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

  Chris Patten

  Freedom, Democracy, Including

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• One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Oxen

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• Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Senior, Business, Bridges

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• Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.

  Henry Rollins

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "Black Coffee Blues". Book by Henry Rollins, 1992.

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• If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.

  Donald Miller

  Real, Nice, Character

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Lonely, Pain

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.304, A&C Black

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• They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

  Sutton Foster

  Success, Broken Heart, Dream

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• Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love Is, Rocks, Bullshit

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• In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

  Scott Adams

  Car, Hot, Way

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• For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

  Alexis Bledel

  Boys, Facts, Bad Boy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Business, Hard Work

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• We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.

  Carl Levin

  Military, Thoughtful, Government

  "GOP on Iraq: We told you so" Jeremy Herb and Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 12, 2014.

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• I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

  Seth Gordon

  Feet, Trying, Way

  "Exclusive: Director Seth Gordon Talks HORRIBLE BOSSES, WARGAMES and KING OF KONG". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  The End Of The Day, Likes, Puppy

  "Cynthia McKinney’s Last Stand" by Jonah Goldberg, October 29, 2001.

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• I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

  Charlie Munger

  Understanding, Gold, Hoarding

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• Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

  Larry Robinson

  Sports, Psychology, Quality

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• There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

  Don Rittner

  Eye, People, Internet

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• I jerk off 'til I bust blood.

  Cam'ron

  Blood, Masturbation

  Song: Confessions, Album: Confessions of Fire, 1998

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• Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk.

  Greg Behrendt

  Selfish, Years, Guy

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• all skinny guys with beards are jerks

  Randy Quaid

  Guy, Beard, Skinny

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• In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

  Warren Farrell

  Past, Men, Careers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

  Michael Buble

  Hockey, Player, Thinking

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• Our efforts for inclusive growth are holistic and not piecemeal; well planned and not knee jerk reactions; not for small changes but for quantum leap; making people the partners in growth not just beneficiaries; addressing the local needs by using global ideas and technology. And this is why our efforts in e-governance have been applauded the world over.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Small Changes, Ideas

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• I will never grow thick skin, so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

  Daniel Pearce

  Skins, Thick Skin, Grows

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• I do what I do for the people who believe in me, not for the jerks who don't.

  Terry Fox

  Believe, People, Believe In Me

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