Nasty Quotes - Page 24

• I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

  John Mellencamp

  Dirty, Fighting, Naughty

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• I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Cinema, Television

  "Helen Mirren: UK is angry and cruel". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2010.

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• I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hard Work, Mean, Night

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• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Sex, Dirty, Reality

  "Talking Dirty". Book by Carole McKenzie (p. 46), January 2, 2014.

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• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  Nas

  People, Trying, Generations

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

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• I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dirty, Naughty, Views

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• The rest of Russia is watching the same television that Vladimir Putin is watching. As far as they're concerned, Pussy Riot was rightly convicted of blasphemy, and Putin has now finally showed some mercy and let them out early so they could spend New Year's with their kids. He was nice to them even though they are really nasty. That's the dominant view. This really is a war and the front line is really firm.

  Masha Gessen

  New Year, War, Nice

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• [ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Thinking, Strange

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Country, Party, Small Numbers

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• "Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Crazy, Men

  "Joan Baez finds her seat among quartet of greats". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

  Peter Weir

  Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.

  Amy Winehouse

  School, Blow, Thinking

  "Notes of disdain". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2004.

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• The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

  Samuel Beckett

  Cycling, Ill, Turns

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Mercier and Camier”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, India, Ponies

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• I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, Guy, Next Level

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• Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

  Alton Brown

  Flames, Doe, Want

  "Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 26, 2012.

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• I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

  Michael Caine

  Dirty, Naughty, Rotten

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• People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

  Larry David

  People, Actors

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• Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?

  Mike Epps

  Mean, Men, Together

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Discipline

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• After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.

  Guy Ritchie

  Brother, Character, Pigs

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat with Snatch Director Guy Ritchie and Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

  Joe Rogan

  Witty, Guy, Brilliant

  "A Cuppa Hot Joe". Interview with J. C. Shakespeare, www.austinchronicle.com. May 4, 2001.

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• I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.

  Martha Stewart

  Dirty, Years, Underwear

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• Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strength, Stay Strong, Moving Forward

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Use, Quiet

  "The Hobbit". 75th Anniversary Edition,

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