Rotten Quotes
300 quotes by 248 authors
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the…
— Hannah Arendt
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
— Rita Mae Brown
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
— Michael Caine
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain…
— Michael Caine
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
— Albert Camus
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
— Eric Clapton
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The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough,…
— George Clooney
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Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get…
— Louise Hay
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in…
— John Howard Griffin
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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have…
— Adolf Hitler
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You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
— Adolf Hitler
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Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
— Hannah Arendt
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The rotten apple spoils his companion.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all that is being…
— Rajneesh
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It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's…
— Ayn Rand
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven... As those who climb a…
— John Climacus
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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false…
— Hannah Arendt
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