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• I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Fun, Mean, Easy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, Iowa, Cities

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, November 22, 2011.

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• I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited.

  Ted Nugent

  Littles, Dave, Shakes

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• For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Thinking, Winning, Class

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.97, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.

  David Gordon Green

  Skills, Icons, Saws

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

  Frank Gehry

  Hate, Mean, Stuff

  Source: www.playboy.com

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• The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have the death-dealing quality of autumn but lack the life-giving quality of spring. How can they develop people then?

  Zicheng Hong

  Spring, Autumn, People

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• Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Strong, Mean, Learning

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• I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

  Vashti Bunyan

  People, Giving, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

  Marianne Williamson

  Father, Justice, Fighter

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Football, Country, Crazy

  Intervuew with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 22, 2011.

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• I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Tired, Despair

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this, because I'm going use that country music sound; I'm going use that hip-hop sound; I'm going use that acoustic [sound]." It's just making music. So now that I've traveled a lot more since I did Acoustic Soul, I'm sure that different sounds will come into place, because I have been exposed to it and I like it. But it's not so much of a conscience effort. It's mind and spirited. You know, we're humans.

  India.Arie

  Country, Thinking, Effort

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• I'm definitely light-spirited, but I just felt like my music had to have a little more depth.

  Nick Cannon

  Light, Depth, Littles

  "Nick Cannon flexing his mogul muscle in Hollywood" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2005.

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• Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Independent, Self, Preparation

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things they say, but that isn't going to work on Trump the way it works on conservatives, for a whole host of reasons.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Years, Way

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Honesty, Lying, Believe

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• I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was tired of aesthetic wars that weren't productive and were becoming mean-spirited. I was probably overworked as well, so I stopped reading and writing for about a year.

  Simone Muench

  War, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

  John Gibbons

  Party, Priorities, Political

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• Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Sports, Feelings, Cheerful

  "The U.S. Yoga Federation Founder + President Rajashree Choudhury". Interview with Zoë Kors. Part I, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon during the family vacation. Why does it work? Why did it stick?And there is an answer.When they [Democrates] ran the ads about guy's wife dying with cancer...? Remember this? This was a serious series of ads, and it was deadly effective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Dog, Cancer

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d experienced before - a bad game or my two previous divorces - I got over them. This time I just could not get out of the hole. The anxiety attacks were frequent and extensive. I had weight loss, which I’d never had before. I couldn’t stop crying. And if I wasn’t crying, I was angry, bitter, hateful and mean-spirited. I couldn’t sleep - couldn’t concentrate. It just got crazy.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Crazy, Mean, Sleep

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• In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

  Umberto Eco

  Soul, Needs, Noble

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.129, Random House

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• It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Men, Envy, Free Spirit

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• Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as though her veins were full of wine.

  Lola Montez

  Girl, Running, Religious

  "The Arts of Beauty".

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