“When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that.” KnowsLooksWholeStoriesAgeFilmMovingCultureLosesWorstTenAgreeWorst ThingsConsensusPreview Author:Oliver Stone
“I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.” PeopleBelieveOne ThingWorstGood ThingsBad Things Author:Gigi Hadid
“Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else.” PeopleThinkingWayEnoughMy OwnWorstCriticsAbusive Author:Demi Moore
“As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.” ArtistEnemyWorstComfortWorst Enemy Author:Nelly Furtado
“Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they didn't like the fact that we were carrying out the worst crime since the Second World War. But that's so inconceivable that wasn't even offered as a possible reason.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanSaidWarReasonFactsGuyWorstCrimePossibilityUniversityRanWar Of The WorldsChicagoProfessorsVietnamImmoralPollsVietnam WarSecond World War Author:Noam Chomsky
“Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history of imperialism, there were huge demonstrations, before the war was officially launched.” WorldFirstsWarWorstCrimeHugeFirst TimeIraqWar Of The WorldsWorld War IImperialismDemonstrationIraq WarSecond World War Author:Noam Chomsky
“Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.” WorryWorstClimateClimate ChangeUncertain Author:Noam Chomsky
“The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or corporate raiders borrow the money to buy a property or company, and then pay interest to the bondholders, you'll load the company you take over with debt. But you don't have to pay taxes on the profits that you pay out in this way. You can deduct the interest from your tax liability.” IfsWayRealInterestPayCompanyWorstTrumpTaxesPropertyProfitDebtCorporateOwnersLoadEstatesLiabilityLoopholesRaiders Author:Michael Hudson
“The Democrats have made the low-information voters think they care about 'em. And the worst thing you can do is invest in the Democrat Party, the worst thing, in terms of life potential.” ThinkingMadeCareTermCan DoPartyWorstInformationLowsDemocratEmsVotersWorst Things Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use you. And the evidence is clear. Look at all of these groups that have been voting Democrat for 50 years. Take a look at the towns that have been nothing but Democrat, towns and cities, for 30 years, and just take a look at them. The evidence is right there. We got the strong, silent type, and they have been replaced by this pajama-clad kid that the Regime used to sell Obamacare. The pajama kid! The nerd in his pajamas.” YearsLooksHas BeensUseKidsPoliticalUsedTurnsStrongCan DoPartyCitiesClearGroupsWorstTypeEvidenceTownsSellsSilentDemocratVotingOver YouRegimesReplacedWorst ThingsPolitical PartiesNerdObamacarePajamas Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.” IfsWorldWould BeBlackAudienceWorstOvercomingExploitationWorst ThingsSnakesBlack Snake Moan Author:Christina Ricci
“Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.” MenWarWholeForcePeaceWorstMilitaryCommitTeamworkAntiwarWorld War IRevoltPeace WarNo WarBarbaricBarbarityAgainst War Author:Ellen Key
“I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.” PeopleThinkingWould BeStrongInterestingMiddleWorstReactionsDialogueInvitesMediocreMixturesBeing Me Author:Sofia Coppola
“We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.” ShouldFactsEffortFailingWorstAreasTraditionAssumingRussiaReformInternalsAggressionDoomedRussian History Author:Daniel Fried
“I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions. But all the more reason, therefore, to resist their aggression and take it seriously.” PeopleKnowsBelieveReasonWorstTraditionRussiaAggressionDoomed Author:Daniel Fried
“I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.” PeopleThinkingWellsGovernmentLinesDemocracyWorstEducatedWell Educated Author:Reid Hoffman
“The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I know the problems. To parody Winston Churchill: It is the worst system, except we don't have any other.” KnowsMayHas BeensIdeasProblemNationsUnitedFansWorstUnited NationsParody Author:Mary Robinson
“I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to escape, to get out, to never have to marry somebody there. Of course, they were not dying to marry me. I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black, and clever.” LittlesWantedGirlCoursesBlackWorstDyingGrewGrew UpCleverNightmareVillageWorst ThingsMarry Me Author:Arundhati Roy
“Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.” MenWorstTasteDecades80sSophisticationDiagramsBlackboardRecorded Music Author:Steve Erickson
“I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.” LooksSocialWorstRacismCommitmentViolentOppressionDemon Author:Jordan Peele
“At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.” SoulWantedJobsHoursDoorsWorstDiseasePaidUniversitySellingDestroyingSexuallyReceptionClinicPart TimePart Time JobsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Kate Thornton
“Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingBelieveJobsSpeakI BelieveDealsStudyWorstLike YouConsciousDown AndI Believe InSpreadHypocriteBelieve In Allah Author:Rakim
“While I think in principle people should not have irrational beliefs, I should say that as a matter of fact, it is people who hold what I regard as completely irrational beliefs who are among the most effective moral actors in the world, in many respects. They're among the worst, but also among the best, even though the moral beliefs are ostensibly the same.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldMatterFactsActorsBeliefMoralPrinciplesWorstRegardIrrationalMatter Of FactIrrational BeliefsMoral Beliefs Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and they succeeded in turning it into one of the worst military disasters in history. They can't control it and it's almost impossible for them to get out for reasons you can't discuss in the United States because to discuss the reasons why they can't get out would be to concede the reasons why they invaded.” ShouldStatesReasonWould BeUnitedUnited StatesImpossibleWorstMilitaryIraqDisasterAdministrationReason WhyOccupationCatastropheUnimaginable Author:Noam Chomsky
“The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.” CountryCareWorstCostHealth CareOutcomesScandalHealth Care System Author:Noam Chomsky
“The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect.” LastsHumanityBehindsHalfMiddleWorstCenturyMilitaryCrimeArmsIndustryWeaponsEastCriminalsIdeologyIranApathyMiddle EastConventionalGreedyLagMilitary PowerCrimes Against HumanitySuper Power Author:Ilan Pappe
“Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.” PeopleWorldHas BeensEnoughPastMillionsWorstExampleTerribleDecadesSyriaEasternCongoAtrocities Author:Noam Chomsky
“It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.” PeopleKnowsWorstMediaAtrocitiesRwanda Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.” PeopleWritingYearsEndsFactsKidsSchoolThreeWorstCircumstancesExpectationsTestsBottomBackgroundsDespiteThe End Of The DayThree YearsUnfortunateGroundedPublic SchoolBaltimoreUnshakableHigh ExpectationsUnshakable FaithUnfortunate Circumstances Author:Michelle Rhee
“We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.” GivingShouldMindStatesDealsEnemyPovertyMorningAchieveWorstCircumstancesConflictResourcesInequalityEveningState Of MindUps & DownsWorst Enemy Author:Matthieu Ricard
“If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.” IfsWorldNeedsChildrenTwoDifferentAgeThreeLanguageSocialCan DoBrainWatchesTeacherTeachingWorstTvsBehaviorConnectedDifferent ThingsInteractionWorst ThingsAutisticSocial Interaction Author:Temple Grandin
“In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is tremendous debt on humanity, it is one of the most underdeveloped areas and where the worst pandemics exist. In many incidents the European powers that colonized them are now not even capable of helping them.” CountryHelpingEarthHumanityWorstCapableAreasDebtRegionsSouthernContinentsIncidentsOrigin Of LifePandemics Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.” IfsYearsWellsLooksThreeHappenedMiddleWorstOfficeHappeningsCrisisFinancialThree YearsFranklinGreat DepressionFinancial CrisisFranklin Delano Roosevelt Author:Barack Obama
“I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.” ThinkingFeelsSaidStillsGovernmentFormWorstAppreciationAlternativesForms Of Government Author:Barack Obama
“I think the worst professional advice I've received... I feel I've been lucky in that I've gotten a lot of wonderful guidance, but I remember - and I would never do this to someone - I remember going into a manager's office, the manager I had in New York, and this was way back when. And she said to me, immediately, "You should never wear striped T-shirts. You look much bigger than you are."” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldLooksSaidRememberWonderfulWorstAdviceNew YorkLuckyOfficeBiggerManagersGuidanceShirtsT ShirtBack WhenWay Back When Author:June Diane Raphael
“If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.” IfsThinkingMenWorldMindWould BeAgeForceWorstChainsAdministrationDividesPopeReactionariesChristendom Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Sometimes worst enemies like a Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier that's what makes you fight so hard. Without them they never would have achieved greatness.” SometimesHardFightingEnemyWorstGreatnessWorst EnemyMohammed Ali Author:Sylvester Stallone
“The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.” EvilGamesWorstManipulationMusic Business Author:Robert Greene
“I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime.” IfsThinkingWorldStillsMatterDoneFactsBitsQualityWorstEventsConcernScalesHolocaustConsideringOld FashionedMassacresWartime Author:David Irving
“The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.” HappenedWorstWorst ThingsAddict Author:Eminem
“I'll never forget my worst business decision. I bought a Nissan Pathfinder with my first signing bonus. I didn't even have a place to live, but I bought a car. Not a smart move but, believe me, I learned from that mistake.” FirstsBelieveMovingDecisionForgetMistakeWorstCarSmartNever ForgetBelieve In MeSigningBonusPlaces To LiveBusiness Decisions Author:Terry Crews
“When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.” FirstsLongAmericaMovingBlackDestinyGroupsWorstLong TimeExcitingTransformationFolksOppressionDiscussionControllers Author:Chokwe Lumumba
“Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts is to doom one's nation to a life of incuriosity, dullness, literalness and the worst kind of rank materialism.” KindMeanArtNationsWorstArt IsMaterialismDoomDullnessCripples Author:George Saunders
“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.” PeopleIfsWorldWantNeedsGivingEndsRealityWould BeWantedOrderBeliefLevelsWorstFoolIllusionSpectrumFooledVirtual Reality Author:Vik Muniz
“Growing up in the suburbs, the worst part was definitely being black. The best part was maybe also being black. Just having that perspective, being on the outside while also being on the inside. That's kind of how I've felt my whole life.” KindWholeFeltBlackGrowing UpGrowingWorstPerspectiveWhole LifeSuburbs Author:Ian Simpson
“The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.” PeopleWorldWantDifferentRealityWalksWorstPerspectiveComputerTheaterThings To DoWorst ThingsAnimatedDifferent WorldsMovie Theater Author:Genndy Tartakovsky
“The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree."” WorstAgreeYeahReviewsWorst ThingsBad Reviews Author:Bob Odenkirk
“I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not just true of the innumerable unread books in the socialist realist tradition, but also of novels that carry the burden of conservative ideologies, like Guerrillas, Naipaul's worst book, where the author's disgust for a certain kind of black activist and white liberal is overpowering.” ThinkingKindBookPoliticalCertainBlackWhiteNovelWorstConsciousTraditionPrejudiceIntentionConservativeBurdenIdeologyActivistDisgustingSocialistContestsRealistOverpoweringGuerrillasUnread Books Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still using today, in 2008 when I had the worst heartbreak of my life with my first girlfriend. It inspired great music.” FirstsStillsTodaySongWorstInspiredGirlfriendAffectedGreat Music Author:Kevin McCall