People Quote by Geoffrey Nunberg Download Open image “Few people become assholes reluctantly.” — Geoffrey Nunberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
“The world is not full of assholes. But, they are strategically placed so that you'll come across one every day.” –Unknown” — Genna Rulon Copy Share
The world is not full of assholes. But, they are strategically placed so that you'll come across one every day. — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have… — Mikey Way Copy Share Image
“Making other people feel like assholes was a terrible way to get them to stop acting like assholes.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
A lot of times, that asshole behavior is a cover for deep insecurities, and sometimes the deeper the insecurities, the bigger the asshole. — Tommy Dewey Copy Share Image
There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“To summarize, then, our three requirements for a good theory of assholes are as follows. We are looking for (1) a stable trait of… — Aaron James Copy Share Image
Assholes tend to stick together, and once stuck are not easily separated. — Robert I. Sutton Copy Share Image
“It's important that these people think of their adversaries specifically as assholes. That's what gives the modern rhetoric of polarization its singular stamp and… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“When Roger Ailes said that NPR executives were 'the left wing of Nazism," he wasn't trying to tar NPR as evil in the eyes… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure. — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without notice unless… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an asshole can… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“Culpable obtuseness. He should know better. That's one reason why we don't use the a-word, for example, of little children. They can merit the… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
