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Related Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. GERALD VANN Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity GERALD VANN LIV TYLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats. PETER HEDGES ABHIJIT NASKAR STEVEN MAGEE GEORGE MOORE Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are. CHARLES DANCE PAUL FUSSELL PAUL FUSSELL SARAH VOWELL BOB HOPE WILL.I.AM The power never to allow money corrupt your mind is by learning not to revere money above people. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) STEVEN MAGEE It depends on which day it is. Some days, it's more depressing than other days. CINDY SALERNO Hollywood is more forgiving than the church. RICHARD ROSSI IMELDA MARCOS I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing ... NICHOLAS HOULT JOSEPH ADDISON SAMUEL JOHNSON To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN DANA CARVEY If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that... JAKAYA KIKWETE BOB MARLEY MARILYN MONROE SAMUEL JOHNSON SAMUEL JOHNSON Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the
tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt... BIBLE ROGER EBERT I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female cha... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI It's Hollywood, and everyone's just fascinated by Hollywood. GIULIANA DEPANDI STEVEN MAGEE 'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an... MANNY FARBER It's depressing. It is down right depressing because, you know, I was able to give my kids so much m... ANDREA FULLER Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing. RON BLOMBERG GEORGE BERNARD SHAW GEORGE BERNARD SHAW HANNAH ARENDT In order to bring me down.You have to be able to reach me first. PRAVINEE HURBUNGS JOHNNY CARSON DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ANON. BOB HOPE Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So yo... ZIYI ZHANG ANTHONY T. HINCKS ETHAN COEN There are two things that corrupt a man: money and women. Working to avoid it is great wisdom. VIKRANT PARSAI SUZY KASSEM WALTER ISAACSON The bottom line of Hollywood is money. VICTORIA JACKSON The past is depressing, the future anxious, and the present calming. JIM GENOVESE JACKIE COLLINS ANSELM KIEFER Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmeti... KATHRYN LASKY DOROTHY PARKER You have to think it will. It's too depressing not to. AYRON SCHONEMAN They range from fines to possible imprisonment and if the police decide that its a corrupt act and n... DR HELENA CATT Everyone is running from Rita. I don't watch no TV; it's too depressing. My house is gone and everyt... TIMOTHY PARKER PARK CHAN-WOOK Blame not the corrupt leaders anymore, go look for their parents.A corrupt leader is not well tutore... FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are... CHRISTIAN WILLIAMS Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, over... H. R. GIGER The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt. RUTH RENDELL NEWT GINGRICH I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitti... KIM DOTCOM Often in life if you are aware about dubious double meanings, you have a corrupt mind and if you are... APURVA GAGLANI Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real... KIM DOTCOM There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrup... JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU RALPH MARSTON I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me... JONATHAN LIPNICKI CASSANDRA CLARE If there is really any evidence of insider trading, then he's in very serious trouble, and so is his... GARY JACOBSON ST. THOMAS AQUINAS I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are... ZIYI ZHANG WINONA RYDER GEORGE ORWELL The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they... MIAN MUHAMMAD MANSHA JENNIFER NIVEN GLENN BECK I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the worl... STEPHEN BALDWIN Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. TANYA ROBERTS I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissin... SARAH SILVERMAN DAVE BARRY GEORGE ORWELL You can’t really know yourself until you discover how corrupt you are. VIKRANT PARSAI L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood... PAIGE CRAIG What happened last year was depressing. It's depressing losing to Florida every year. FRED GIBSON KEVIN HART Entitlement and privelege corrupt. VICE ADMIRAL JAMES B. STOCKDALE A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing. EMMA MCLAUGHLIN STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL KAREN RAVN I thought I'd have some good news. It's really depressing. JAMES CRAWFORD If they don't like a decision, they say the judge is corrupt. It's not a joke. It's dangerous and un... DAVID BOOKSTAVER JOAN DIDION STEFAN ZWEIG The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not co... ROBERT ZUBRIN I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, s... KAREN HANDEL
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A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation wi... 
Politics, it's all corrupt! 
Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero. 
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. 
...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism. 
At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what som... 
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a peopl... 
Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies. 
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my f... 
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally ... 
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally ... 
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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. 
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly beco... 
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My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' 
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. 
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In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. 
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Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise,
They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood. 
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Excellence can be obtained if you:
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