Mean Spirited Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.77, Crown Forum

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• I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

  Tracey Ullman

  Mean, People, Cynical

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• I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Texas, Hell

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• It feels like every movie I've ever done, I always expected to have rocks thrown through my windows or have people protesting and it never happens and so I wasn't really ever that worried just so long as it wasn't mean spirited.

  George Ratliff

  Mean, Rocks, Long

  "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because it's not about the art anymore. It's a struggle. There's part of me that wants to share my gift, which is art, and if I don't, am I taking away something that the Creator gave me to share? At the same time, I don't want to be a part of feeding the dumbing down of society.

  Tinsel Korey

  Art, Struggle, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Football, Country, Crazy

  Intervuew with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 22, 2011.

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• I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was tired of aesthetic wars that weren't productive and were becoming mean-spirited. I was probably overworked as well, so I stopped reading and writing for about a year.

  Simone Muench

  War, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be not showing compassion or dignity or whatever code word is used to transmit the notion that we're mean-spirited, that we're selfish, and that we're probably bigoted and racist and don't want people here like that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Selfish, Mean, Compassion

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• We never get any gratitude for what we do. We just are constantly ripped. We are constantly complained about. We are constantly attacked. And people are fed up with it. People are fed up being told they haven't done enough, that they don't do enough, that they don't care enough, that they're mean-spirited, that they're extremists, when this is the most loving and charitable, the most giving country the world has ever seen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Gratitude, Mean

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Strong, Mean, Learning

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• You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon during the family vacation. Why does it work? Why did it stick?And there is an answer.When they [Democrates] ran the ads about guy's wife dying with cancer...? Remember this? This was a serious series of ads, and it was deadly effective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Dog, Cancer

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

  Frank Gehry

  Hate, Mean, Stuff

  Source: www.playboy.com

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• We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education where this has been indoctrinated into the young skulls full of mush of young people. They've heard how horrible America was back in the days of slavery. They've heard how horrible America treated women. They've heard how horrible every minority group was treated. They've heard how mean-spirited the founders were. They've heard all kinds of literal lies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Hate, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Real, Mean

  "Don Rickles (1926 - 2017)". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 5, 2017.

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• I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals and people, which is against the spirit of Islam. While I stand by the truths that he spoke, I must condemn in the strongest terms the manner in which those truths were represented.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mean, People, Listening

  "Farrakhan Repudiates Speech For Tone, Not Anti-Semitism" by Steven A. Holmes, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 1994.

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• I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Mean, Survivor, Conflict

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.

  Amy Schumer

  Children, Cancer, Writing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Support, Looks

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• I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.

  Tucker Carlson

  Uncles, Home, Mean

  Slate magazine, July 17, 1997.

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• All great companies have spirit and culture. Mean spirited returns mean spirit.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Mean, Culture, Return

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I want to try to counter what Donald Trump says because a lot of it is mean-spirited and would hurt people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hurt, Mean, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Tired, Despair

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things they say, but that isn't going to work on Trump the way it works on conservatives, for a whole host of reasons.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Years, Way

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Mean

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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