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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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Simple, Way

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.512, Anchor

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• The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

  David Rolf

  Wages, Poverty, Fast Food

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

  Thurgood Marshall

  Character, United States, Calumny

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
  Those undreamt accidents that have made me
  Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
  Being but a part of ancient ceremony
  Notorious, till all my priceless things
  Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

  William Butler Yeats

  Forgiveness, Dog, Long

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.96, Library of Alexandria

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• In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Real, Rap, Names

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• Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.

  Amos Elon

  War, Feelings, Victory

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• If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Ifs

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• The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

  Henry Adams

  Sex, Women, Humorous

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• No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Order, Noble

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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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• It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

  Eric Linklater

  Wall, Ordinary, Ears

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• People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others. These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism". Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Sex, Punishment, Earthquakes

  "Tsunami Reactions (9) - Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: Disaster a Punishment for Sex Tourism". MEMRI TV, January 2005.

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• I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

  Francine Mathews

  Two, Dull, Hours

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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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• 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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• 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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• Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Has Beens

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