I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going into it, and pseudo-political about the… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
I think your emotion changes from person to person. As you get older, a lot of people become cynical because of the… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
“I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“How To Reprimand A Cynical Optimist You can have your cake and eat it too but don't let me catch you five… — Pamela August Russell Copy Share Image
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
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