Nasty Quotes - Page 14

• One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Smart, Keys, Definitions

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• There's moments that are very personal in The Divorce. There are moments that are sort of unwatchably vulgar or intimate or pathetic. I even had this conversation with my mom. My mom saw the pilot and she was like, "I just thought that some of it seemed nasty." I'm like, "Mom. You're from a whole different generation. And yeah. There's some nastiness that goes on."

  Thomas Haden Church

  Mom, Divorce, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I remember in film school, when we made shorts, you'd sit there and screen them with your peers, which has its own flavor, because everybody's so competitive and evil, and it's a really nasty environment.

  Tamara Jenkins

  School, Evil, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

  Pat Burns

  Hockey, People, Sometimes

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• We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

  Joe Manganiello

  Lying, Phones, Conversation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological liar, made this wonderful distinction between lying, which he said there was something wrong with if you were trying to extract an advantage for yourself or evade responsibility for some nasty thing you'd done. But if all you're really trying to do is impress or keep it young or make life more vivid and interesting, go for it! There's no real harm in doing something like that. I think people can be overly saddled to the truth.

  Lawrence Douglas

  Real, Liars, Lying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Minorities, Littles

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.158, Random House

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• They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random acts of destruction and chauvinism, which is interesting because our Prime Minister, our Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Mayor of London were are a part of this club.

  Max Irons

  Interesting, People, Purpose

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

  Arnold Wesker

  Dirty, Suffering, Tuberculosis

  "Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.

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• It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, People

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

  Morgan Brittany

  Uplifting, Dirty, Trying

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• I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

  Hunter Tylo

  Dirty, Down And, Kind

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• You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Friendship, Teaching, Mean

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• I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Light, People

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

  Dean Cain

  Fun, Real, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

  Cleo Moore

  Mean, Blonde, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Philosophy, Mean, Political

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• I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jesus, Stars, Mean

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• So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

  Faye Dunaway

  Mean, People, Actors

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• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

  Mean, Clubs, Good God

  On being approached by the secretary of the Athenaeum, which he had been in the habit of using as a convenience on the way to his office; attributed

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• I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

  Josh Holloway

  Mean, Mind, Crowds

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• I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Mean, Player, Games

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• I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

  Clint Black

  Mean, Ems, Entourage

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• I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.

  Nas

  Trying, Energy, Flesh

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