Top Unpleasant Quotes
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.
Rem Koolhaas
Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.
Steve Blake
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
John Stockwell
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Samuel Barber
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
Jonathan Franzen
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli 
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I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
Lana Wood
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
William Ralph Inge
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With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
John Agyekum Kufuor
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If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
Keith Henson
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp
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We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.
Heinz Fischer
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel
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