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I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an almost nimbus-like quality behind some of his frightening characters and stuff.
Jonathan Demme
Quality
Francis
Say
Out
Characters
Bacon
Exactly
Some
Disturbing
Almost
Stuff
His
Frightening
Get
Behind
Really
Paintings
Why
People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.
Josh Tillman
People
Say
See
Disturbing
More
More And More
Point
Never
Reached
Revolting
Disgusted
Where
Want
Again
Them
Us
Used
Now
Things
My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.
Juergen Teller
Beautiful
Others
Ways
Some
Disturbing
Very
Childhood
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to be mortal.
Justin Cartwright
Book
Gorgeous
Insights
Disturbing
Mortal
Means
Imagery
Loaded
I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?
Keith Ellison
You
Do The Right Thing
People
Police
Own
Community
Right Thing
Disturbing
Brown
My Own
Bland
Sterling
Know
Police Officers
Protect
Force
How
Eric
Lot
Deny
Officers
The Right Thing
Pattern
Rice
Sandra
Then
Mike
Who
Garner
Right
Thing
When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.
Kevin Brady
Blame
Reality
People
Losing
Trend
Strategy
Other
Other Countries
Presidential
Corporations
Jobs
Disturbing
Countries
Longer
Democratic
Protect
Afford
American
Any
Candidates
Just
Want
Cannot
While
Workers
Ignore
Help
American Workers
Washington
Save
I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long been historically used to oppress and criminalize black people.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Peace
People
Black
Long
Think
Criminalize
Disturbing
Classroom
Like
Been
Oppress
Lot
Historically
Used
Useful
Recall
The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
Kyle Hill
Work
Truth
Science
Communication
Dark
Try
Will
Say
Ways
Would
Disturbing
About
Uncertainty
Delivering
Putting
Like
Messages
Sure
How
How Much
Candle
Mean
Much
Really
Theories
I've got everything against likable characters. Likable characters are usually completely forgettable, and we don't really care. I think we love villains... precisely because they show us these disturbing complexities that I don't think nice characters do.
Lawrence Osborne
Love
Care
Nice
Think
Everything
Complexities
Characters
Disturbing
Likable
Because
Got
Precisely
Against
Us
Really
Show
Villains
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
Lisa Jewell
Mother
Complex
Tell
Would
Classic
Disturbing
Tale
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Replete
Childhood
Children
Story
Again
Disjointed
Ask
Us
Round
Her
Gather
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger
Today
People
Anxiety
Unpleasant
Disturbing
Insofar
Answer
Answers
Want
Means
Many
Away
Honest
Soft
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.
Louise Gluck
Me
Laureate
Disturbing
Seems
Wrong
New
Ideas
Still
His
Cultural
Predecessor
Unfolding
Should
Each
Novelty
Appetite
Her
The Obama administration demonstrated time and again a disturbing willingness to bypass the separation of powers and disregard Congress as a Constitutional watchdog.
Luther Strange
Time
Separation
Congress
Bypass
Willingness
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Constitutional
Disturbing
Powers
Again
Disregard
There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
Madeleine Stowe
Time
Great
Me
Great Deal
Pressure
Seen
Way
Disturbing
Point
Had
He
Look
Alter
Him
Deal
Came
His
Version
July
Michael
Just
Movie
Film
On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.
Marc Racicot
Day
Enemies
Ideology
Nation
Our
States
Neither
John
Threat
Threatened
Disturbing
John Kerry
Allies
Understands
Nor
Again
Realize
Bin
United
United States
Pose
Kerry
I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
Mark Haddon
You
Memories
Wonderful
Thought
Past
Swimming
Slightly
Log
See
Disturbing
About
Fond
Fond Memories
Rather
More
Boston
Also
Around
How
Were
Very
Pond
Themselves
Toes
Your
Many
Swim
Lived
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
Maurizio Cattelan
Beautiful
Harmless
Way
Extremely
Disturbing
Something
Idea
Device
Employing
Am
Convey
Apparently
Fascinated
Images
Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.
Max von Sydow
Great
Silence
Man
Noise
Discipline
Important
Everyone
Bergman
Disturbing
He
Concentrate
Forced
Working
Rehearsal
Code
I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.
Michael Haneke
Me
Director
Father
Made
Men
Difficult
On The Contrary
See
Disturbing
More
Absence
Factor
Never
Contrary
Child
Working
Inclined
Suffered
Things
Started
'The Strange Thing About the Johnsons' is so disturbing but so good, because it went through a lot of things that you don't really see, ever.
Milly Shapiro
Good
You
Strange
See
Disturbing
About
Through
Because
Lot
Really
Strange Thing
Ever
Thing
Things
Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.
Mira Nair
Life
Character
Seen
Films
Other
Side
Disturbing
Faceless
Named
Know
Cultural
American
Screaming
Even
Pakistani
It's a bit disturbing to me that people have to evolve to the idea that people are equal.
Nicholas Gonzalez
Me
People
Bit
Evolve
Disturbing
Idea
Equal
I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.
Noah Baumbach
Great
People
Disturbing
Had
Joyful
Making
Very
Experiences
Movie
Found
I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.
Pamela Anderson
Love
Future
Great
Wonderful
Hell
President
Obama
Would
Would-Be
Disturbing
Likable
Look
Call
Around
Very
American
Children
Want
Barack
Barack Obama
Helicopter
Palin
Start
You don't want to go and make something, then go out and do shows, if you're not really into it. You don't want to go out there and make people feel like you're grudging playing them a song. That's a disturbing thought.
Paolo Nutini
You
People
Song
Thought
Out
Disturbing
Something
Feel
Like
Make
Go
Want
Them
Then
Really
Shows
Playing
Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
Patricia Richardson
Woman
Women
Medium
Television
Disturbing
Scenes
Real
Still
Going
Behind
Little
Even
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