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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.
I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.
I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.
Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.
Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.
We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
I am incredibly cynical, and I don't think that's something people would guess. People think I'm all positive, but I'm a skeptic.
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front.
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.