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You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash' but you can't go on television and slander a person's career. It's illegal, even on reality shows.
Carole Radziwill / Journalist
Illegal
Reality Shows
Slander
Trash
Lousy
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
Chuck Close / Photographer
Art
Art History
Description
Painting
Photography
Sound
Taught
Art History Great
Lousy
History Art Great
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This is the extreme left's problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don't listen to and understand Americans, you'll pay the price at the ballot box.
Trish Regan /
Extreme
Ballot
Ballot Box
Lousy
Ratings
Votes
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In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / Journalist
Degrees
Economic
Fetch
Normal
Skills
Education Work Business
Advanced
Almost All
Teachers
Lousy
Less Money
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I love watching film. I love watching stories. I watch the people in them... Even, sometimes, films that nobody else can watch - 'How could you look at that? It's lousy' - I can look at it and be totally into it.
Christopher Lloyd /
Love Look People
Lousy
Nobody Else
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I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.
Rosecrans Baldwin / Novelist
Regret
Rhythm
Sentences
Song
Speakers
Thinking
Lousy
Shares
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
Malcolm Gladwell / Journalist
Genes
Neglected
Pernicious
Poor People
Prejudice
Upbringing
Lousy
Transferred
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There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.
Anthony Mccarten /
Ingredients
License
Lousy
Fine Line
Fulfill
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I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
Anthony Hopkins / Actor
Kids
Antisocial
Bother
Moron
Real
School
Screwed Up
Brains
Lousy
Student
Other Kids
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How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?
Geoffrey Canada / Social Activist
Lousy
Exactly The Same
Remain
Same Thing
Schools
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You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.
Jon Taffer / Consultant
Give Me
Bar
Lousy
Manager
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Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not going to go for some lousy version of it. If I'm going to have it, I'm going to have a really good one. I believe in treating yourself occasionally to something.
Christie Brinkley / Model
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Love Good Believe
Version
Chip
Lousy
Occasionally
Treating
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I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'
Elizabeth Vargas / Journalist
Local News
Anchor
Contract
Lousy
Local
Renew
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I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
Fred Savage / Actor
Education
Jobs
Fall
Fickle
Good Family
Maintaining
Steady
Life Education Family
Lousy
Suggest
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What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.
Tyne Daly / Actress
Not Interested
Private Life
Selling
Life Work Me
Lousy
Whoever
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
Ted Sarandos /
Expensive
Tv Shows
Lousy
Ecosystem
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I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.
Mark Skousen / Economist
New York
Airports
Cities
Etc
Focused
Infrastructure
Ironic
Massive
Mike
New York City
Traffic
Airport
Lousy
Ignoring
Mayor
Roads
Sizes
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I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
Ernie Pyle / Journalist
Cold
Columns
Deadline
Sick
Struggle
Thinking
Anyhow
Close
Lousy
Except
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I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.
Wynton Marsalis / Trumpeter
Growing Up
New Orleans
Self Esteem
Torture
Campaign
Lousy
Grow Up
Orleans
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We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
David Fincher / Film Director
Locked
Locked Up
Negative
Print
Original
Lousy
Pointed
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We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.
Theodore Zeldin /
Jobs
Abolish
Distinction
Employers
Leisure
Leisure Time
Mean
Mistake
Workers
Time Work Keep
Lousy
Last Century
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I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
Burt Bacharach / Singer
American Music
Littles
Piano
School
Time Music Keep
Lousy
Mcgill
No Talent
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Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won.
Mary H.k. Choi /
Disingenuous
Insipid
Justin
Skateboarding
Stink
Actually
Tattoos
Case
Lousy
Won
Justin Bieber
Lyrics
Missed
Worse
Yes
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Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
Amy Waldman / Author
Brain
Creativity
Each Day
Naps
Ran
Sake
Thinking
Work Me Day
Words
Work Brain Me
Less
Nap
Lousy
Helps
Least
Mine
Point
Producing
Realise
Refresh
Took
While
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The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.
Jim Lehrer / Journalist
God
Best
Great
Heard
Invisible
God Great Me
God Best Great
Best Great Me
God Best Me
Seen
Oh
Lousy
Either
Failed
Essentially
Oh God
Question
Talked
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When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.
Tom Watson / Golfer
Finished
Golf
Good Day
Holes
Life Good Day
Life Good Good Day
Played
Lousy
Round
Hole
Messed
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Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.
Gina Barreca / Professor
Counselor
New York City
Seeking
Social Work
Work Health Good
Lousy
Dates
Master
Health Insurance
Insurance
Match
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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich / Former U.s. Representative
Great
Boy Scout
Campfire
Faithful
Nasty
Obedient
Party
Republican
Republican Party
Words
Boy
Around
Those
Lousy
Encourage
Would
Problems
Scout
Which
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Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.
Alex Berenson / Reporter
Commercialism
Fake
Nbc
Olympics
Refusal
Viewers
Winter
Lousy
Event
Fail
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
Sally Mann / Photographer
Photograph
Serendipity
Picture
Camera
Lousy
Element
Good Picture
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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon / Writer
Humor
Compassion
Impact
Passing
Philosophical
Writing
Fiction Writer
Lousy
Economical
Writers
Huge Impact
Rand
Virtually
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We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
Jen Sincero /
Friends
Jobs
Ability
Adapting
Glorious
Humans
Mediocrity
Problem
Remarkable
Rude
Stuck
Use
Used
Waste
Years
Really
Anything
Being
Get
Stay
Often
Lousy
Marriages
Ours
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Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought that it took lousy pictures. Neither thought that they had anything to worry about.
Om Malik /
Iphone
Makers
Lousy
Dismissed
Inferior
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I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.
Gary Mccord / Golfer
Disturbing
Firmament
Forgotten
Inadequate
Rope
Speed
Twisted
Combined
Cube
Lousy
Incurable
Venue
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Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
George Takei / Actor
War
Adaptable
Camps
Mass
Mess
Noisy
Normal
Prisoner
Routine
Three
Eat
Food Me Day
Amazingly
Bathe
Became
Lousy
Times
Hall
Line
Shower
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Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.
Walt Mossberg / Journalist
Ads
Important Questions
Tracking
Courts
Lousy
Increasing
Intrusive
Platform
Unprotected
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Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'
Terry Pratchett / Author
Backwards
Christ
Commandments
Eating
Garden
Punishment
Simple
Thinking
Rules
Apple
Awful Lot
Boil
Lousy
Hang
Issue
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After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.
Howie Carr / Journalist
Borders
Claims
Economy
Gas
Gas Prices
Illegal
Illegal Aliens
Numbers
Terrible
Years
Caused
Obama
Alien
Allowed
Crossing
Border
Lousy
Number
Policies
Prices
Says
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During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.
Simon Hoggart / Journalist
Desperate
Ignored
Invaluable
Qualifications
Realised
Uganda
Lousy
Gap
Largely
Lesson
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When I poked Baker Mayfield in the ribs - police video, height - poked him in the ribs, kind of a reach. Oh, it bothered him. He fired back every time. Every time. Because Baker was not ready to go from best college team to lousy NFL team. That's a certain level maturity and self-esteem that few have.
Colin Cowherd / Radio Host
Height
Maturity
Nfl
Ribs
Self Esteem
Baker
Certain Level
Lousy
Fired
Poked
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There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are paid shills for their companies. We still get a few of those, but we really try to police it. Think about who the audience is and what works for them, and deliver high-quality content.
Tim O'reilly /
Conferences
High Quality
Police
Speakers
Lousy
Deliver
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Divorce is challenging. When your kids go through things, it's tough. But it's no different for any other woman. And I have great compassion for single moms. It's lousy out there for them. I had the ability to work. I have always been the provider anyway, but there are a lot of women who can't support themselves.
Marie Osmond / Singer
Compassion
Divorce
Work Women Great
Anyway
Lousy
Moms
Provider
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I used to be a pretty hard-core iPhone fan. But over time, I grew more and more frustrated with the lousy service on AT&T. My iPhone simply could not reliably make and hold a phone call. Not just in New York and San Francisco, where I spend a lot of time, and where AT&T's service has been notoriously bad for years.
Daniel Lyons / Writer
Frustrated
Iphone
San Francisco
Lousy
Phone
Francisco
Hold
More And More
Phone Call
Reliably
San
Service
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There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
J. Michael Straczynski / Writer
Kids
Age
Adults
Flash
Relate
Sidekicks
Considered
Lousy
Grownup
List
Mainly
Robin
Speedy
Suddenly
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Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.
Daphne Gottlieb / Poet
Activism
Rebellion
Revolution
Slim
Uprising
Acts
Lousy
Poem
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The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled.
Michael Gerber / Author
Accounting
Fascinated
Firm
Helm
Repairing
Love Best Business
Automobiles
Business Owner
Chances
Credits
Lousy
Owner
Likewise
Unfulfilled
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Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys.
Frank Oz / Film Director
Movies
America
Bob
Character
Cocky
Cowardly
Crosby
Exotic
Location
Made
Seven
Singapore
Smooth
Starting
Hope Great Always
Bing
Lousy
Dorothy
Finding
Guys
Road
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Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive, enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.
Martha Beck / Author
Differences
Enjoyable
Lifetime
Succeed
Celebrating
Lousy
Fail
Hide
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