Perverse Quotes
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It`s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
Barbara Holland
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Acting to mid-air is odd. There`s a perverse pleasure to it when you get it right, but often you don`t. Aliens are really hard. On the second one [Star Wars: Episode II] I was doing the scene with those tall ones - actually, I quite fancied the female one...
Ewan McGregor
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On the rumors that her black eye was the result of abuse by Salman Khan: "For some perverse reason, no one wants to believe me, that I fell down the stairs. First the media calls me the woman of the millennium, a woman of substance. Then how can the same ...
Aishwarya Rai
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
David Brooks
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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
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The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.
Andrew Schepers
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The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don`t have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.
Joni Mitchell
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It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
Robert Musil
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Isn`t that the most perverse thing you`ve ever heard?
John Waters
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they ...
Barney Frank
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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 real...
Studs Terkel
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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 real...
Studs Terkel
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Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.
Kevin McDonald
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And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.
Alan Schlesinger
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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
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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They`ll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
Richard Russo
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In science, `fact` can only mean `confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.` I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
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