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I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
Jeremy Clarkson
You
Mother
Complaint
Say
Draw
Out
Some
Dirt
Take
Taken
True
Most
Without
Line
Years
Any
Children
Dish
Stories
Which
Should
Why
Murmur
Number
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
John Millington Synge
Death
Woman
Grief
Somewhere
Rage
Every
Complaint
Seems
Contain
Over
Island
Passionate
Years
Personal
Native
Eighty
Whole
Keen
Lurks
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.
John Updike
Year
Complaint
Once
Extremes
Host
New
Likes
Return
Exile
Condition
Times
York
Human
New York
Loved
Human Condition
Grandeur
Who
Necessity
Plays
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
Joseph Epstein
Me
Complainer
Complaint
Out
Am
Been
Grounds
Swept
Basically
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
Joseph Lancaster
Education
Pay
Every
Difficulty
Complaint
Bad
Through
Generally
Almost
Obtaining
Department
When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing.
Judy Blume
Saying
You
Book
Writing
School
Complaining
Will
Complaint
Waving
Say
Out
Cases
Parent
Proper
Through
Take
Put
Like
Know
Go
Review
Anymore
Happen
Board
Many
Fill
Away
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.
Julian Baggini
Work
Art
Too
Complaint
Moral
Objection
About
Rectify
Principled
Mastering
Self-Interest
Often
Grounds
Need
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
Laura Schlessinger
Tired
Quality
Women
Stress
Job
Energy
Complaint
Typical
Out
Married
Husbands
Emotion
Left
Children
Little
Them
Much
Less
The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.
Lilly Ledbetter
Me
Decision
First
Pay
Complaint
Months
Though
About
Know
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Within
Decades
Six
Should
Less
Company
Even
Nearly
Two
My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.
Linwood Barclay
Great
You
Phone
Old
Men
Country
Late
Complaint
Out
Tell
Hat
Hurry
Wearing
Hats
Winding
About
Guy
Drivers
Road
True
Particularly
Well
Friends
Get
Cell
Going
Behind
Just
Where
Biggest
Old Guy
Might
Old Men
Your
I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're on Matador. It's kind of a legendary label - you're going to have to live up to all those other bands.' I guess it's not that explicit.
Lucy Dacus
You
People
Gone
Live
Other
Complaint
Guess
Intimidating
Those
Kind
Feel
Like
Label
Up
Bands
Expectations
Legendary
Going
Oh
Little
Explicit
The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help.
Lucy Griffiths
Me
Stage
Too
Enough
Complaint
Projecting
Slightly
Voice
Always
Got
Quite
Being
Naturalistic
Help
Soft
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
Marilyn vos Savant
Complaint
Slightly
High
High Heels
Wearing
Able
Entire
Removal
Without
Heels
Evening
Suffer
Early
Yes, CEOs are under pressure from all sides, and executives have all sorts of people pushing and pulling at them. But too often, they begin to view and treat their teams, and especially their assistants, as appliances. And a good assistant knows that the last thing their boss wants to hear from them is a personal complaint about anything.
Mark Goulston
Good
People
Treat
Pressure
Too
Complaint
Sides
About
Boss
Pushing
Executives
Sort
Knows
Hear
Yes
Begin
Personal
Often
Anything
Wants
Them
CEOs
View
Teams
Thing
Appliances
Assistant
Last
Assistants
Pulling
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
Nancy Lublin
Love
Change
Celebrate
Honey
Complaint
Construct
Proposing
Thy
Executing
Without
Hive
Plan
Produce
Toil
Team
Who
Play
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior
Happiness
Respect
Wealth
Political
Matter
Made
First
Complaint
Virtue
Consideration
Attention
Economists
Obstacles
Been
Often
Confine
Against
Grave
Disregard
Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
Odette Annable
Time
Good
You
Woman
Good Time
White
Bone
Incredible
Complaint
Kind
Riot
Never
Bottom
Bottom Line
Betty
She
Always
Line
Hear
Mean
Room
Really
Body
Her
Funniest
Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Alone
Crime
Wikileaks
Complaint
Despite
Charged
Joe
Fact
Had
Dropped
Been
Amazon
Senator
Any
After
Customer
Convicted
Receiving
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the classics hold up so well.
Rebecca Serle
Picture
Complaint
Books
Classics
New
Picture Books
Well
Read
Because
Um
Up
Get
Often
Hold
Lament
Ridiculous
'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.
Richard D. Zanuck
Funny
You
People
Situation
Complaint
Dramatic
Out
More
More People
Between
Always
Very
Difference
Either
Movies
Far
Worked
Much
Two
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
Robert Barany
Made
Patient
Experiment
Complaint
Later
Minutes
About
Pointing
Arm
Reaction
Left
Normally
Appeared
Right
Right Arm
Two
Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.
Robert Toombs
Cause
Complaint
States
Section
Advantage
Obtained
Sought
Northern
Just
Republic
Them
Certainly
Ever
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
Ron Kind
Army
Remember
Will
Complaint
Respected
Corps
Faulty
Lock
About
Data
Economist
Expansion
Justify
Use
Many
Dam
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
Complaint
More
Excite
Contempt
Than
Pity
Fortune
Usual
I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.
Shekhar Kapur
Myself
Me
Relationship
Girl
Every
Complaint
Possessive
Has-Been
Had
Self-Contained
Adventure
Comfortable
Always
Am
Been
Left
Just
Fundamental
I said if you want me to go back to Afghanistan and work, I'm happy to do that. If you think accepting my resignation is best for the cause and for the nation, then I have no complaint with that.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Work
Best
Me
You
Happy
Cause
Nation
Think
Complaint
Back
Accepting
Said
Go
Afghanistan
Want
Then
Resignation
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