Not Fair Quotes - Page 3

• It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Sexuality, Emphasis, Fairs

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• Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

  Karen Russell

  Mother, Grief, Flower

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• We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

  Malcolm Gladwell

  World, Natural, Advantage

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• I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

  Ricky Martin

  Country, Latin, America

  "Ricky Martin Embraces Arab Youth". Ricky Martin's address to the youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference in the Middle East, www.cbsnews.com. July 25, 2005.

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• I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

  Jenna Fischer

  Real, Actors, Way

  "Interview: Jenna Fischer On A Little Help, Dinner Theater, And Breaking The Pam Mold". Interview with Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. June 07, 2010.

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

  David Brin

  Fool, Life Is, Ought

  "The Uplift War". Book by David Brin, April 1987.

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• If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

  Carlos Alazraqui

  Names, People, Cartoon

  "The Many Voices of Carlos Alazraqui" by Ryan Ball, www.animationmagazine.net. February 17, 2006.

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• It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.

  George Osborne

  Life, People, Parent

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, www.publications.parliament.uk. July 8, 2015.

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• You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

  Paul David Tripp

  Would Be, Doomed, Fairs

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Aug 31, 2013

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• I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.

  Tori Spelling

  Nice, Thinking, Looks

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• European countries need to make more of a contribution in terms of defence capabilities. It is not fair?to keep turning to our ally in the United States to contribute military forces to problems which involve our own security.

  Geoff Hoon

  Country, Military, Allies

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• Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

  Jean Rostand

  Criticism, Critics, Fairs

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Passion, Animal, Thinking

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

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• Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

  Vera Nazarian

  Nice, Giving, Matter

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• The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

  Fred Green

  World, Misery, Unnecessary

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• The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of fiction comes out of a child's feeling of, "Hey, that's not fair."

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Children, Writing, Feelings

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• Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.

  Pete Dye

  Life Is, Should, Courses

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• No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Soon Enough, Expectations, Heaven

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• You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Atheist, Order, Listening

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• It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

  Jonathan King

  Publicity, Accused, Adverse

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• If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

  Plautus

  Jest, Turns, Earnest

  "Amphitruo". III. 2. 39,

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• I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hard Work, Giving, Fans

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• People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Talking, Issues

  "Holder: Still need for frank talk on race" by, www.politico.com. July 11, 2010.

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• Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share, one with another, such experiences as may have common value.

  Manly Hall

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Desire

  "The Text of Three Recordings".

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