Obnoxious Quotes - Page 4

• A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Team, Personality

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• If you can rhythmically slow down your breath to four breaths a minute, you can indirectly control your mind and slow it down from its obnoxious behavior.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Mind, Four

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• No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

  Joe McNally

  Dream, Photography, Art

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• [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

  James Madison

  Party, Communication, Passion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.45

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• Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken the bands of Society. If it be difficult to execute any law which is not generally deemed necessary or salutary, what must be the case, where it is deemed invalid and dangerous? And what may be the effect of so striking an example of impotency in the Government, on its general authority?

  James Madison

  Government, Law, May

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I’m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know there’s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that I’m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.

  Chris Colfer

  Honesty, Thinking, Self

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• In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

  David Hockney

  Wall, Thinking, Sketching

  ""Portrait of the Artist as a Naughty Boy"". Interview with John Mortimer, In Character, 1983.

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• There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

  Robert Benchley

  Taken, Vacation, Class

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.1, Glendower Media

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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Apologizing, Boring, Worst

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Writing, Self, Black

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Animal, Ridiculous

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

  Kenny Hickey

  Hate, Night, Years

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• I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tired, Cocky, Player

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• Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

  Sheldon Siegel

  Nice, People, Together

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• The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.

  John Foxe

  Venice, Years, Matter

  John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

  Ezra Klein

  College, Men, Practice

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• Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.

  Alvin Holmes

  Sex, Men, Long

  "Alabama Dem Shocks Radio Audience With His Support for a Man Marrying a ‘Little Mule’" by Mike Opelka, www.theblaze.com. April 11, 2014.

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• But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

  Nancy Pelosi

  Married, Knows, Ifs

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• You know, the eleven million people living in the shadows, I believe, they're already American citizens... These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard alone eleven million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Views, People

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• It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

  Donald Sterling

  Yale, People, Black

  "Obama leads backlash against LA Clippers owner's alleged racist remarks" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2014.

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• There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.

  Eric Holder

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  "Eric Holder: U.S. Still 'Afraid' of Race". ABC News interview, abcnews.go.com. July 13, 2014.

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• I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Uptight, Littles

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• I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

  William Shenstone

  Names, I Am Thankful, Pun

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.101

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