Vices Quotes - Page 13

• I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea was a friendship between two prostitutes, and I spent time with a vice squad guy in Cincinnati who brought me to a brothel and gave me the rundown on how street prostitution works.

  Veena Sud

  Squad, Ideas, Two

  Source: deadline.com

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• He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Reform, Restoration, Way

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• Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

  Josh Billings

  Brother, Men, Virtue

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• Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attachment, Long, Habit

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

  J. A. Spender

  Youth, Middle, Worst

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• A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

  Raymond Chandler

  Nice, Men, Affair

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.15, Modern Library

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• I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Presidential, Firsts, Has Beens

  "Vice-Presidential Candidate Looks Back With Justifiable Pride", www.nytimes.com. July 12, 1988.

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• Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Daughter, Running, Father

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Running, Thinking, People

  "First Female Vice-Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro Dies". www.foxnews.com. March 26, 2011.

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• Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mind, Duty

  Edmund Burke (1882). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”

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• In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Believe, Advancement

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.

  Maimonides

  Drinking, Men, Class

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

  Noah Webster

  Real, Men, Support

  Noah Webster (1823). “Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States”, p.19

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• Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Men, Lust, Driving

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• The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

  Kedar Joshi

  Consciousness, Vice Versa, Spatial

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• Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

  Antonio Gates

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

  Seneca the Younger

  Running, Spiritual, Storm

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• Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

  Avicii

  Thinking, Play, Work Out

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

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• If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Growing Up, Boston

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• Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Home, Writing

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Done, Vice Versa

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• Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

  Aldous Huxley

  Tired, Lust, Body

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• I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.

  Tom Verlaine

  Negative, Television, Speak

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• The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

  Aristippus

  Lying, Entering, Coming Out

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• Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen, auditors, secretaries of defense- and you'll realie they all dress the same way, essentially the way the mannequins in the Sears menswear department dress. Now look at the real successes, the people who make a lot more money than you- Elton John, Captain Kangaroo, anybody from Saudi Arabia, Big Bird, and so on. They all dress funny- and they all succeed.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Real, Average

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