Notorious Quotes

• I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

  Rock Hudson

  Giving, Actors, Interviews

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• Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us
  Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious
  Thug ass niggaz that love to bust, it's strange to us
  Y'all niggaz be scramblin, gamblin
  Up in restaraunts with mandolins, and violins
  We just sittin here tryin to win, tryin not to sin
  High off weed and lots of gin
  So much smoke need oxygen, steadily countin them Benjamins

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Weed, Rap, Angel

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• Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ifs

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.248, Courier Corporation

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• The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

  Doris Humphrey

  Dance, Stupid, Thinking

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Desire, Increase, Desire To Live

  Charlas de Cafe

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• In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.

  Peter Dicken

  Cities, Tree, Kingdoms

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.467, SAGE

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• How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Party, Government, Political

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.18, Vintage

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• The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Self, Names

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

  Big Sean

  Boys, Hip Hop, Eras

  "Big Sean Talks Def Jam Debut, Detroit Roots, and Working With Kanye & Pharrell". Interview with Modele "Modi" Oyewole, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• I never claimed to be famous. Notorious I have always been.

  Lola Montez

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• The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Heart, Darkness

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

  Joseph Addison

  Liars, Party, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.601

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• Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

  Mona Charen

  Differences, Understanding, Diplomats

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• Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

  Robert Pinsky

  Genre, Autobiography, Falsehood

  "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

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• I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving Up, Party, Unity

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.248, Oxford Paperbacks

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• When I look at the women, it's from a male gaze of being fascinated, because beyond my mother, I've been around notorious women all of my life, and then, secondly, when I look at women and try and create fictional stories around them.

  Miles Aldridge

  Mother, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Waxing, Reason, Meetings

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

  Joseph Addison

  Spleen, Concern, Converting

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• Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Mother, Children, Women

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• My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

  Quincy Jones

  Wine, Home, Gun

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

  William Hazlitt

  Blessing, Past, Long

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1176, Delphi Classics

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• Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

  Euripides

  Children, Successful, Men

  Orestes, l.542-3 (translated by M L West, 1987).

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• It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Memories, Trustworthy, Burden

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.116, Delphi Classics

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• When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

  Plutarch

  Men, Speak, Spokes

  "Laconic Apophthegms". Reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," 10th ed., 1919.

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