- Nov 07, 2020
Disparage Quotes
On refusing to tear others down unfairly.
To disparage something is easy, but these quotes argue for restraint, whether it's respecting a fellow filmmaker's style or refusing to dismiss earlier, less artistic work. They connect directly with our Belittle quotes for more on that same instinct.
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- Family Structure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020