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On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if… — Billy Campbell
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on. — Gale Gordon
You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene. — Billy Squier
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant. — Manny Farber
Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience… — John McCain
Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light of. It is… — Marv Wolfman
There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them… — Al Gore
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. — H. L. Mencken
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any… — Frederick Lenz
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others… — W. Somerset Maugham
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do… — Benjamin Disraeli
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. — Baltasar Gracian
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting. — Eric Hoffer
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down… — Eric Hoffer
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. — Joyce Carol Oates
I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you,… — Ingmar Bergman
I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown… — Ingmar Bergman
Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not… — Theodore Roosevelt
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile… — Ann Landers
Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who… — Frederick Lenz
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it. — Frederick Lenz
When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available… — Jane Roberts
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as… — C.S. Lewis

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