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#cynic

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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.


Bill Watterson


#taking-tests #useless-information #cynicism

Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.


Harlan Ellison


#cynicism

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.


Carl Barks


#cynicism #did #get #had #hell

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.


Bergen Evans


#humor #humor

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.


Kristin Davis


#carrie #could #cynical #hard #i

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.


Tony Blair


#commentators #cynics #human #human progress #never

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.


Edward Dowden


#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.


Susan Estrich


#certain level #convention #cynicism #different #every

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.


Emilio Estevez


#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#anything #brutal #cold #cold war #cynical






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