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“I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.”

Hate House Duty Civics Civic Duty

Author:Ty Burr

“I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?”

People Thinking Want Should Writing Said Humor Funny Form Hate Duty Like You Return My Friends I Hate Racist Jury Chinks Jury Duty

Author:Sarah Silverman

“my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be monitoring them. I would love that. The more the better. I love the tabloid stuff. The trashier the program is, the more I feel it's TV. ... Because that's TV's mode. That's the Age of Hollywood. The idea of PBS - heavy-duty Masterpiece Theater, Bill Moyers - I hate all that.”

Feels Ideas Different Dream Age Hate Stuff Television Tvs Duty Program Hollywood I Hate Theater Bills Heavy Someday Masterpiece Tabloids Monitoring Pbs

Author:Camille Paglia

“The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.”

States Hate Enemy Taken Rights Duty Jew Despise Inferiors Citizenship

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.”

Hate Duty Cold Ought I Hate Dull Commonplace

Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

“Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.”

Years Hate Waiting Watches Path Fate Duty Notes Rounds Breathe Doom Gloom

Author:Bryan Procter

“I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.”

Firsts Believe Government Hate I Believe Duty Citizens Harm

Author:Gordon Smith

“It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.”

Country Hate Duty Patriot

Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do or a little and then a lot [when one dies] as Warrendoes is a matter of personal preference. I would hate to have people ask me for money all day long.”

People Giving Littles Long Has Beens Matter Hate Dies Asks Duty Ask Me Fortunate Preference Giving Back Personal Preferences

Author:Charlie Munger

“Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it is a duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.”

Way Long Hate Causes Duty Spontaneous Hate Him

Author:Bertrand Russell

“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.”