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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
I dated this guy who literally would never eat a single vegetable. I was like, 'This is terrible. You eat like a five-year-old.'
September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.
My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
It's a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying.
This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.
Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.
For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.
When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.
This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.
I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
I am allergic to a certain kind of glue. Most eyelash glues are terrible, the glue in acrylic nails. I get a rash up my arm and face.
Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions about you.
When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.
I can't do the terrible mistake of thinking audiences are dumb and will accept anything I do. I want to be cautious about my choices.
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
I'm a terrible skier and snowboarder but I still love it. But I also love lying around in the sun, eating good food and doing nothing.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don't notice is infinitely worse.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
I grew up thinking 'The Hills' was real life and it made me feel terrible about my own. Like, why wasn't I perfect and pretty like them?
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'
Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.
It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.
I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.