Vulgarity Quotes - Page 6

• Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Softball, Vulgarity Is, Usual

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Fall, People, Facts

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• Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

  Don DeLillo

  Humanity, Historical, Lovely

  Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ants, Generations, Holes

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• So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it represented a solid understanding of issues and of the status quo.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Philadelphia, Issues

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

  Diane Kruger

  Cutting, Style, Dresses

  "Meet Diane Kruger, Our Style Icon". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

  Natalie Portman

  Country, Upset, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think cinema is better today that you can be more daring with what you do. If you do it well. With that comes a responsibility not to bore people with vulgarity and all that stuff. To know how to do it right, know how to lay it out there.

  Ben Gazzara

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication on the part of some people who, in their work, like to give the impression of, "Has there been intercourse or not? Are they about to?" But they take it into a realm that has a vulgar touch to it.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate vulgarity. I hate vulgarity even though it attracts me - and it attracts me very much. I love all that is transgressive or vulgar. But in my opinion, it has to reach a limit that is always a little surreal and never becomes in your face.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Hate, Opinion, Your Face

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

  Anthony Marra

  Character, Sorrow, Irony

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.

  Jacques Maritain

  Plato, Lying, Thinking

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• I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sweet, Real, School

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

  C. S. Lewis

  Symphony, Would Be, Asking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Tasks, Three

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Civilization, America

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• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Way, Rich

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

  Franz Liszt

  Doors, Cuban Cigars, World

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• A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Effort, Conservative

  Leo Strauss (2012). “Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought”, p.414, SUNY Press

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• The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Mean, Opposites

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• To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

  Ernest Renan

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

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• Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.

  Charles McGrath

  Powerful, Media, Doe

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• Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vulgarity Is, Circus, Sometimes

  "London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto: (later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars". Book by Bernard Shaw, 1917.

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• Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Two, Ends

  1818 'On Fashion', in the Scots Magazine.

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• As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not.

  Roger Ebert

  Summer, Character, Swim

  Roger Ebert (2000). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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