#cynical

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ↗

— George S. Patton

#cynical #discover #lack #often #people

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

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

— Joseph Pulitzer

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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

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

— Marg Helgenberger

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I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#cynical #felt #friends #had #i

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#acting #advice #cynical #direction #get

Unless I’m at a wedding, I don’t like veiled threats.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cynical #cynicism #marriage #threats #veil

Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#love #myth #procreation #sex #love

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

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