#perverse

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. ↗

— James Purefoy

#business #finding #get #hotels #i

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#despair #easiest #easiest thing #good #hope

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. ↗

— Tina Brown

#bush #creates #just #makes #mistake

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#down #go #i #like #me

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#dogmatic #exhibited #important #man #material

The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by the Sages, adding maliciously that nothing so sharpened the wits as a passion somewhat out of the common. (“The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah”) ↗

— William Beckford

#perversity #education

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard? ↗

— John Waters

#heard #most #perverse #thing #you

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. ↗

— Erik Larson

#disinclined #i #instantly #me #perverse

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#hall #kids #perverse #silly #would

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#career #career path #contrary #doing #entertainment