- Nov 07, 2020
Hurt Quotes
On pain, defense mechanisms, and the different ways hurt shows up.
Several quotes here treat hurt as something people guard against, including the idea that comedy can work as a shield for real vulnerability underneath. For related reading, see Emotion quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh my god, I never want to hurt a bike. That's the last thing I want to do, precious little bikes.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
If things are said maliciously, and they're meant to hurt, then that's the sort of thing we need to try and stamp out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party.
- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's one point where I play the piano upside down. When I first did that, I hit my head and it really hurt. But people were laughing, so we've kept it in ever since. I probably have severe brain damage.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they're hurting the most are not the economically powerful ones. They're not Sandra Fluke. They're not Lena Dunham, who conservatives hate more than anybody. They're hurting low-earning single mothers.
- Feature Films
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- Nov 07, 2020