Unfair Quotes - Page 13

• There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

  Angel Olsen

  Expectations, Kind, Wells

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. February 22, 2013.

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

  Marvin Olasky

  Opportunity, Needs, Quota

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• The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Punishment, Long, Murder

  1957 In the Sunday Times, 24 Feb.

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• If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.

  Joseph Murphy

  Spiritual, Peace, Mean

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.163, Penguin

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• Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.

  Artur Davis

  Party, Impact, Issues

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• Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

  Bill Delahunt

  Bricks And Mortar, Community, Lines

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• The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

  Norm Dicks

  Believe, Government, Competition

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• You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

  Phil Anselmo

  Sorry, Pain, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Practice, Problem, Trade

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• I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.

  Jo Nesbo

  Selfish, Fighting, Thinking

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• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Islam, Labels

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• I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

  David Rubenstein

  Thinking, Law, People

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• One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.

  Lily Rabe

  Mother, Sorry, Ex Boyfriend

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

  War, Hands, Afar

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Party, Buddhism

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• It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Dancer, Chinese, Groups

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• Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Trying, Body

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• The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

  Joss Stone

  British, Has Beens, Presses

  "Joss Stone smokes weed most days and hasn't heard of Cheryl Cole. Any connection?". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2009.

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• When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

  Jeff Olson

  Responsibility, Fate, Hands

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• Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Arguing, Argument

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• I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Agreement

  "Breaking the Sound Barrier: Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 16, 2008.

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• Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Law, States, Theory

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• WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Sleep, Time Zones, Differences

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• A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.

  Ted Cruz

  Views, Waiting, Path

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