"Being natural is one of the most irritating……" — Alexander Theroux
"Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people."
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21 Quotes by Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux has 21 quotes on this site.
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction,…
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his…
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Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in…
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received…
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
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One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those…
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Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences…
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
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A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a…
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More Irritating Quotes
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one of 155 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once.…
— Lizzy Caplan
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
— Ian Anderson
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Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all…
— Natalie Angier
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Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.
— Arnold Haultain
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We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There…
— Abraham Maslow
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Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers,…
— Marian Anderson
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is…
— Lewis Thomas
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I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
— Jim Parsons
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It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin…
— Starhawk
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What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow…
— Christopher Hitchens
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