#disappointing

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. ↗

— Mel Brooks

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#could #disappointing #drama #i #life

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#art form #become #disappointing #entertainment #films

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #being #books #children #day

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #because #books #disappointing #know

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing. ↗

— Phil Hartman

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When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing. ↗

— Will Arnett

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