Terrible Things Quotes - Page 14

• It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

  Paul Douglas

  Cancer, Independent, Dark

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• It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

  John Dyer

  Tragedy, Wish, Terrible

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• I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

  Ian Mcewan

  Strong, Things In Life, Novelists

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

  Lars von Trier

  Communism, Very Romantic, Terrible

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.

  Dane DeHaan

  Struggle, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

  Anjelica Huston

  Acting, Terrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.

  Eytan Fox

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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• It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.

  Kate del Castillo

  Film, Really Sad, Terrible

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, America, Luck

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

  Barney Frank

  Rights, People, Done

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• It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Painful, Terrible, Emancipation

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• Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Parent, Vices

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.

  Volker Ullrich

  Quality, Energy, Criminals

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• Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

  Jim Broadbent

  Sweet, Jesus, War

  "Fictional character: William 'Boss' Tweed". "Gangs of New York", m.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Taken, Thinking, Sick

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

  Scott Pelley

  Stories, Problem, Hours

  Source: deadline.com

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• Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Monopoly, Terrible

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• You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Laughing

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• He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

  Arthur Miller

  Failure, Character, Attention

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Worry

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• I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Years, Two

  "Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical'" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupid, Lost Ones, Mind

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• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

  J. K. Rowling

  Beautiful, Truth, Literature

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• Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, History

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, Seven Stories Press

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