The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won’t change easily overnight.
I’m a terrible dancer.
It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.
What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all of our human rights.
I’d have made a terrible nun.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.
If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don’t notice is infinitely worse.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That’s like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
I had some really early recordings when I was 16 or 17. I was rapping over jungle beats with my friends. We used to do pirate radio stations in my area, down near Brighton. They were pretty terrible.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
The abortion facility in Texas where I worked for eight years closed after enough workers like me left. They closed because I finally spoke out against the terrible things I saw, the deceit I participated in, and the unsanitary practices common to many abortion facilities.
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Addiction is a terrible thing.
I’m terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work – I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
If it’s a terrible script, it’s a terrible bore.
And that movie was underrated – Nuts – because it deals with a terrible subject, but It’s very well done.
It’s a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
I’m a terrible dancer. The worst.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
If you don’t care about the guy next to you, one, you’re a terrible teammate. Two, you’re never gonna win.
I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they’re the guy who wrote that. You’ve got to be careful; if you don’t want that to happen, don’t write those songs.
Well, if you’re suspecting your lover is having an affair, it’s definitely devastating. It’s really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.
I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn’t comedy.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
To try to expunge an individual’s history is a terrible violation.
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can’t say, ‘Is it too late?’ That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it’s too late, you don’t need to act; if it’s not too late, you don’t need to act.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It’s a terrible thing to have to admit, and you’re not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it’s different when you have your own. It wasn’t for me, though.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.
I think these are terrible times to be anything in.
The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn’t help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
I’m not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
I’ve always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don’t know how to tell jokes.
Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.
Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, ‘OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad state. You’ve left them with terrible developmental challenges, and we believe you have a responsibility to return to the Caribbean and participate in the rebuilding of the Caribbean.’
I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.
Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can’t ignore them.
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
With any kind of artistic thing, it’s a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you’re not doing it, you lose all confidence. That’s why I’m terrible with down time.
Every time I see something terrible, it’s like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
I’ve earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways – as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you’ve got all this great wisdom, you don’t get to be young anymore.
Racing is a funny industry. One week you can be going terrible and the next week you’re on top of the world. So you just keep showing up: I keep working harder to get more opportunities, but what do you do – that’s life.
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don’t have to work hard.
