Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Bob Barr Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • Jean Anouilh Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Ann Coulter Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Thomas De Quincey Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Camille Paglia Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Barbara Demick Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Dale Carnegie Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Abdul Kalam Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa Terrorist attacks in their own countries do not generate travel advisories aimed at discouraging citizens of other countries from visiting. Why is it that only when threats of terrorist attacks are perceived in our kind of countries are travel advisories issued?
    Accusing western countries of issuing indiscriminate travel warnings, 2003-06-24
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Cass McCombs Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Euripides That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Oscar Wilde That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
    An Ideal Husband
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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