“ It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected. ”
- David Canary- Copy
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“ The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. ”
- Henry Home- Copy
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“ Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth. ”
- William C. Redfield- Copy
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“ A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. ”
- Marlo Thomas- Copy
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“ I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ He's a ruthless dictator but he also thinks he's a playwright. Saddam wrote a play called 'Zabiba and the King' … attendance has dropped off since Nathan Lane has left the show. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
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“ I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty. ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
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“ I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances … street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. ”
- Sylvia Porter- Copy
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“ I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
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“ Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ There are other photos — many other photos — that depict incidents of physical violence towards prisoners, acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman,... And I am advised there also are videos of these actions. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ You kno, writers are ruthless. My passionate interest in a given subject, or country, generally extends to about one week after the galleys come out, and then I'm on to something else. My one abiding passion has been for Colombia, for reasons that are completely unclear to me - which is probably just as well… ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
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“ Today, we do fight a different enemy, but one that is no less ruthless, no less determined, no less uncompromising than our enemies of those wars past. Once again, we must stay the course. Once again, we must have faith in our Armed Forces. Once again, we must hold tightly to the belief that freedom will prevail. ”
- Bill Frist- Copy
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“ As Americans, we want peace — we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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“ That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas. ”
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson- Copy
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“ Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
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