240 Quotes About Cynical
- Author Zadie Smith
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The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.
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- Author Dylan Thomas
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Join the army and see the next world.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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- Author Lily Tomlin
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.
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- Author Lionel Trilling
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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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- Author Paul Thomas
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He probably underestimated how cynical people are about politicians' switching parties or deciding they don't want to serve after being elected.
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- Author Peter Ustinov
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
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- Author Gore Vidal
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I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
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- Author Kurt Vonnegut
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
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