Negative Quotes

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Movies, America, Opinions

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Jean Baudrillard

Between, Greatness, Shall

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.
James Lovelock

Job, Saying, Appalling

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Become, Minds, Emotions

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.
Joyce Carol Oates

Work, Wonderful, Attention

Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.
Marilu Henner

Food, Brain, Small

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
Lev Yilmaz

Work, Positive, Try

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Struggle, Fight, Looking

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
Donald Cram

Faith, Work, Time

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
Ice T

Done, After, Themselves

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Eric Liu

Politics, Positive, Bad

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
Jose Mourinho

Society, Football, Sometimes

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.
Chloe Sevigny

Positive, Read, Whether

The media loves negative spin.
Chloe Sevigny

Media, Loves, Spin

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
Shimon Peres

Parents, Nothing, Thought

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
Shimon Peres

Friendship, Deep, Remember

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?
Shaquille O'Neal

Saying, Somebody

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
Joyce Carol Oates

Someone, Energy, Write

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
Eddie Vedder

Parenting, Trying, Might

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.
Jordin Sparks

Time, Attitude, Idea

2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.
Katherine Jenkins

True, Real, Everything

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.
Rory Cochrane

Thoughts, Try, Disaster

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Control, Sometimes, Side

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.
Novak Djokovic

Positive, Country, Able

Negative politics have always been around.
Karl Rove

Politics, Around

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
Rahm Emanuel

Until, Group, Million

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
Rahm Emanuel

History, Country, Days

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
Brion James

Love, Hate, Bad

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
Sammy Hagar

Dark, Talk, Against

Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Love, Time, Fall

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