quotes about Nastiness
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.
-- Antonin Artaud -
On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.
-- George Saunders -
We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.
-- Grover NorquistSource : "The Great Wealth Shift Upward: Corporatists’ War on the Working Class" by Michele Swenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
-- Kate Adie -
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He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
-- Michael KinsleySource : "Is Bush Nice? A Contrarian View" by Michael Kinsley, www.cnn.com. July 16, 1990.
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The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.
-- Robert HughesSource : "A Few Words About Robert Hughes (1938-2012)" by John Seed, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.
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I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.
-- Andy Kindler -
The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.
-- Paul McCulley -
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When you lose velocity off of your fastball, one thing that suffers is your off-speed pitches - the action on your off-speed pitches. Once you lose arm speed, it takes away rotation from your off-speed pitches. The rotation is what gives them the sharpness and the nastiness.
-- Tim Hudson