Perverse Quotes

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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's… — Studs Terkel
Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse. — Paulo Coelho
All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. Iâ€™m always dying though!… — Jared Leto
Every deadline was a crisis â€¦ No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood… — Hunter S. Thompson
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in… — Mitch Daniels
I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But… — Royal Robbins
Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse… — Camille Paglia
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse.… — Denis Donoghue
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse â€” it will… — Ludwig van Beethoven
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take… — Richard Russo
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. — Erik Larson
In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just… — Janet Fitch
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. — David Brooks
What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and… — Francois Fenelon
That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and… — Geraldo Rivera
I write the book for one person â€” for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to… — Brian K. Vaughan
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The… — Tina Brown
The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary… — William Vickrey
An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with… — Thomas Boswell

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