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Abysmal Quotes
On failure, honesty, and admitting when things are bad.
These abysmal quotes show people candidly labeling their own weaknesses, like an actor calling their planning skills abysmal or a comic shop worker admitting recommendations were thin for a while, a tone also found in our care quotes collection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in a comic shop for five years, and the amount of titles I could excitedly recommend to teenage girls was pretty abysmal for awhile.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some actors who are very good at developing things, who have... 'things in the pipeline.' I am abysmal at that kind of thing, loathe it, and am a terrible planner. Unless I'm showing up on the set and acting, I prefer to have nothing to do with the actual business of being an actor.
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- Nov 07, 2020