Obscene Quotes
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Susan Sontag
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation`s history. I mean in this century`s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn`t live in this century.
Dan Quayle
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[on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)] You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of relig...
Oliver Reed
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As a director, my goal is to be completely open. Just look at how I portray sex in my films. They`re considered shocking and obscene because I like to carefully examine human sexuality. It has to be realistic. I really like documentaries, therefore, reali...
Paul Verhoeven
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[at the 2000 Cannes film festival, of the "obscene" amounts being paid to actors] It`s sick. I want nothing to do with it.
Nick Nolte
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I imagine like most of us that I`d like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywh...
Jason Isaacs
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I imagine like most of us that I`d like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywh...
Jason Isaacs
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I imagine like most of us that I`d like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywh...
Jason Isaacs
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It`s obscene, isn`t it? Just ridiculous. We don`t need any of these things! Give it to people who need it. I`ll never have to buy moisturizer again. I might start eating it soon. - what she thinks about celebrities getting free gifts at award shows.
Imelda Staunton
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When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.
Allan Asher
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O`Connor
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The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
Alan McGlade
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
Amjad Hussain
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Andrew Patel
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Just McDonald`s by themselves spends 1.2 billion dollars a year. And that`s just radio, television and print. That`s an obscene amount of money.
Morgan Spurlock
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Alexander Silbiger
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Alexander Silbiger
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It begins and ends with money. It`s absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It`s obscene.
Kathleen Turner
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I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody`s life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
Richard Attenborough
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Alexis Truchan
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I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.
Jay Mohr
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I don`t think there`s one thing I`ve ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.
Howard Stern
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Ali Fabbro
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation`s history. I mean in this century`s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn`t live in this century.
Dan Quayle
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Havelock Ellis
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Havelock Ellis
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Women should be obscene and not heard.
Groucho Marx
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All phone calls are obscene.
Adam Feeley
