Toxic Quotes - Page 4

• My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler.

  Dave Chappelle

  Kids, Views, Looks

  "Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally for Real)". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 12, 2014.

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• I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

  Amanda Harlech

  Fashion, Party, Artist

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• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  Rachel Cusk

  Lying, Orchids, Toxic Waste

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• Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.

  Thomas Frank

  Zombie, Movement, Financial

  "Conservatives and Their Pity Parties" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2009.

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• I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Would Be, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.60, Macmillan

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• We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Couple, Scared, Exposure

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.226, Penguin

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• Luce: "But what about all those other times, when I die before we kiss, before--" Bill: "Before you even have a chance to see how toxic your relationship might become?

  Lauren Kate

  Kissing, Might, Bills

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.872, Delacorte Press

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• No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

  Bill Bryson

  Horse, Mean, Australia

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Ashes, Destruction

  "Taylor Swift Wears the Pants". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 12, 2012.

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• The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldnt live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

  Eric Burdon

  Animal, Worst Enemy, Names

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• I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Crazy, Mean

  "Taylor Swift announces new album 'Red' in fan web chat" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2012.

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• This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Perfect, Female

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• Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

  Judith Orloff

  Love, Positive, Anger

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony

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• There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Drinking, Moving, Science

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• I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Daughter, Mother, Hard Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

  Alec Baldwin

  Marriage, Together, Buttons

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• Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
  Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
  If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
  Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
  For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

  Cormega

  Sex, Hate, Rap

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• Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

  Ward Churchill

  Responsibility, Choices, Fluidity

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• Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sex, Fall, Simplicity

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• The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Dust, Cities

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• The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed. 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and 1988, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tonnes.

  Hans Blix

  Air, Order, Iraq

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• LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

  Stanislav Grof

  Psychosis, Brain, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems.

  Hugo Theorell

  Ions, Fluoride, Enzymes

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• Unacceptable Levels is Powerful.  It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation.  Our ability to protect our families is at stake.

  Joan Blades

  Powerful, Toxic Chemicals, Levels

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• Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

  Scott McClellan

  Atmosphere, Church, Levels

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