Unfortunate Quotes - Page 24

• [Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Population, Film, Blackface

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

  David Brin

  Mistake, Literature, Firsts

  "A Contrarian Perspective on Altruism: The Dangers of First Contact". David Brin's remarks at the conference "Encoding Altruism", September 2002.

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• I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, America, Black

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• The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hate, Men, Diagrams

  "Mindy Kaling Loves Rom Coms (And Being The Boss)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2017.

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• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Speech of at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Hurt, Kids, Common Sense

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• I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Teaching, School, Years

  "Sandra Day O’Connor on Judicial Elections, Supreme Court’s New Players". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 13, 2010.

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• You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

  Conor Oberst

  Nice, Ideas, Forever

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• Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Social Values, Law, Accidents

  "Morning Bell: The Judicial Oath vs Sonia Sotomayor" by Conn Carroll, www.dailysignal.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

  Bob Woodward

  Editors, Names, Source

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• Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

  Democritus

  Education, Ornaments, Refuge

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

  Jesse Jackson

  Struggle, People, Way

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• It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.

  Madeleine Albright

  Home, Law, World

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• If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.

  Ian Svenonius

  Escaping, People, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

  Anna Holmes

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, May, Saws

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• The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

  Simon Schama

  Depressing, Golf, Decay

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• This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Empathy, Enthusiasm

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• People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, People, Half

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• It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

  Cameron van der Burgh

  Victim, Australian, Presses

  "London 2012: Swimmer hits back at Australian media over 'cheat' story". www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

  Andrew Lo

  Financial, Modern, Crisis

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• It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Team, Nba Championships, Years

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• It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Depressing, Men

  "On the Road". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Heaven, Vengeance, Cry

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• We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.

  Lynn Steen

  Believe, School, Intellectual

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