There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.
I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It’s like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.
‘Mad Men’ is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.
The overall experience was pretty cool just because if there was a street, it was lined with people. And for something as brutal as a marathon, you’re running for three hours, it’s just nice to have all those people cheering you on, putting their hands out for high fives – you never feel alone.
‘Rapper’s Delight’ came from the TV entertainment show ‘Good Times,’ but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists answered, covering brutal truths in their rhymes that were uncomfortable for society to confront.
The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it’s incredibly healing.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Don’t play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.
Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you’re in the can.
I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up ‘brutal’ in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it’s under the guise of wanting to change the actor’s habit – wanting to break bad habits and replace them with brand-new ones you can use for the rest of your career.
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it’s so grimly brutal!
I know politics is emotionally brutal; I’ve already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
That’s actually the main reason I decided to leave WWE: the brutal schedule that you have when you work for a company like WWE.
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a ‘socialist paradise.’
It started getting too crazy with ‘Earth A.D.’ The concepts started becoming too brutal and violent. It was less about fiction and more about the real world, the past, present, and future. I think a lot of people got freaked out by that.
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
We’ve always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It’s no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
What shocked me, and what I wasn’t prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, ‘Holy cow!’ But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.
In South Africa in 1987, apartheid was still going strong. Some of the most brutal race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn’t yet been repealed. There was still a lot of tension.
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we’re looking at is not a historical event but – and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it – a racket.
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, ‘I’m number one, I’m the best!’ because that sounds like a lot of pressure.
My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I’d live with aunts or uncles, then I’d run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn’t get all bent out of shape about it.
To compare the United States of America – the beacon of the free world – to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.
One of the perils of being a Z list celebrity is Twitter. Its brutal.
We played nightclubs for seven years solid before we got a record deal, and then ‘Cowboys From Hell’ and ‘Vulgar Display Of Power,’ we toured non-stop four years for those records, and we developed the most brutal, loyal fan base on the face of the earth.
Americans get fooled because we think we’re trying to help the peasants down there in El Salvador, even though we’re propping up that oppressive government, among the most brutal and militaristic in the world.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
To reach the biggest club in the world where there are millions of fans and a lot of pressure was a brutal change.
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.
The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It’s to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It’s also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
If you desire something, you don’t have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something – and after that, it’s done.
I think I should be respectful of fighters. This sport is brutal enough itself. I don’t think you should say stupid statements or should act like savages.
Comedy is brutal. It’s powerful, though.
Children are brutal and have no malice, which makes everything they say horribly cutting.
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
X-Force was made like a brutal X-Men club – they’re doing special forces, R-rated things.
