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Deformed Quotes
What gets twisted before it comes back to you.
These deformed quotes describe distortion in more than one sense, from personal struggles reshaped by retelling to public debate warping an idea's original meaning. Our Beautiful collection sits in useful contrast.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.
- Drama
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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
- Character
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
- Dismay
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.
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Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
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