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Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.
Rob Halford
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
Rod Stewart
Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians. It's inevitable that the Holocaust is part of Israeli politics.
Timothy D. Snyder
"Given time we would have become less than indispensable and you would have started looking around for a way to shaft us instead of doing the honorable thing and paying us off and simply terminating our comission.” "That's what I love about you, Croaker. Your unflagging faith in humanity.” "Absolutely. Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent,” I grumped.
Glen Cook
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.
Daniel Pinchbeck
It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
Jeremy Paxman
The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.
Jeremy Paxman
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
Jeremy Paxman
A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.
Georgette Heyer
It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.
Lauren Willig
There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily spooked or driven to cynicism - the country is diverse but, paradoxically, extremely insular.
Lawrence Osborne
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
John Ortberg
Cynicism about America's current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.
Cory Booker
In the Renaissance there is much light, yes, and there is much in it with which Italians may share national pride. But there is much darkness. For the Renaissance is also the age of individualism, that through the splendid visions of poetry and art brought the Italian nation to the indifference, skepticism, and distracted cynicism of those who have nothing to defend, not in their family, their Fatherland, or in the world where every human personality conscious of its own value and personal dignity invest itself.
Giovanni Gentile
I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
Conan O'Brien
All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O'Brien
Generation after generation, humankind fights to preserve the status quo, maintaining "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know," a bit of folk cynicism that assumes the unknown to be dangerous.
Marilyn Ferguson
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
Serj Tankian
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
Alan Thicke
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
Alexander Payne
My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.
Anna Faris
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.
Dee Dee Myers
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