#cynic

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#asked #cynicism #give #me #people

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. ↗

— Rick Perry

#budget #child #combat #consensus #cooperation

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music. ↗

— Tom Petty

#beautiful #beautiful thing #cynical #dedicated #easy

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#cynical #itself #mercenary #people #press

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#comedian #comedians #cynical #i #like

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. ↗

— Robert Redford

#audience #big #candy #consciousness #cotton

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical. ↗

— Marg Helgenberger

#bled #cynical #hard #i #into

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#marriage #obama #position