The defining characteristic of a hipster—the thing everyone agreed on, and most hated about them—wasn't so much their taste, but their contempt and condescension toward those less cool than themselves.
Mara Wilson
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time a... DAN PEARCE As a person who feels at their best when they are helping others, the INFJ wants nothing less than t... JENNIFER SOLDNER Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug... MARY OLIVER About 51 percent of nonprofit executives have been in their positions five years or less. Most of th... ANN JOHNSON [Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now... PLUTARCH Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift abou... LYNNE TRUSS This process has to be very hard on the nominee and on their families and everyone who cares much ab... JOHN CORNYN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase thi... JOHN GREEN The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influen... GILBERT WHITE Pain is just a feeling, and feelings aren't real. MICHELLE HODKIN I'm chasing oblivion I will never find. MICHELLE HODKIN Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them. DEYTH BANGER You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b... CORNELIA FUNKE . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, ... JODI LYNN ANDERSON Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something. NOAH BAUMBACH No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn... KEVIN DEYOUNG The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. ROBERT J. SHILLER I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words so they wouldn't soun... JOHN GREEN People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than t... JANE RULE Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebri... DAVE CHAPPELLE The entire team did a great job of staying focused on clients, and not getting distracted. The quali... BRIAN SHAW Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people beh... MEGHAN MARKLE This is their dream so maybe they go one less place or maybe do one less thing they are still going ... MATT HOWARD The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks... MARK A. ROEDER The most important thing for them to do is to do research and develop goals and a plan for their fut... HEATHER RAUE This is probably one of those games where I thought less about my numbers and less about my game. It... COURTNEY PARIS This program is much more about players than most. Jim came in, immediately got to know so much abou... ANDY GEIGER They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those onl... HENRY FIELDING There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those onl... HENRY FIELDING Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is ... CRISS JAMI And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themsel... PAUL HAWKEN First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in bu... GAIL SIMMONS Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The artists themselves talk to young people about their own financial journey toward empowerment. BENJAMIN CHAVIS It was so much different in those days. People ran their tournaments pretty much to suit themselves. BYRON NELSON The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was covered in blood. The second thi... MICHELLE HODKIN Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places ... HARRIET TUBMAN Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only... CRAIG GROESCHEL Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their produ... STEVE EASTERBROOK For the average consumer that's looking for a way to tilt their odds in favor of healthy development... CHARLES BENBROOK We must visit churches frequently and venerate and revere the clergy - not so much for themselves, i... ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (LETTER TO THE FAITHFUL II I'm less devoted to PCs than into the disdain of Apple. Apple users are so arrogant and evangelical ... JANET WRIGHT With so much media consolidation, less than a dozen companies now own most of the newspapers, magazi... LOUISE THOMPSON Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific know... VINCENT VAN GOGH Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, ... BIBLE Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simp... STEPHEN BAYLEY If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. ERIN MCKEAN A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t... LAURA SCHLESSINGER Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear... CRISS JAMI But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th... MATT RUFF Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other peop... DOLORES HUERTA Everyone on that team can score and their post players are much bigger than we are. KATIE MONTGOMERY Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for ea... DAVID SCOTT Most people look better with their clothes ON, and those ten people who don't look better than you, ... PETER BUCK I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's ... MISTY COPELAND It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classr... PAUL WEYRICH This is kind of like the old lock-and-key diaries of the 1970s, but these diaries are open to everyo... ROBIN MARTIN People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when... CECELIA AHERN I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that al... WALE PLAY ME. My gaze flicked to the hand. The fist was curled around a small tape recorder. I moved... MICHELLE HODKIN On the other hand, old people who have lived most of their lives are set in their habits and therefo... WANG XUN That's certainly been a defining characteristic of Nashville's health-care industry. MATT GALLIVAN The only problem with the Angels' new image was that the outlaws themselves didn't understand it. It... HUNTER S. THOMPSON For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, lik... JON FAVREAU Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the prese... ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER III It is a package that delivers safer neighbourhoods to everyone in London, that takes people out of t... IAN BLAIR Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're r... SHERMAN ALEXIE It’s curtain call for the crew of inner voices that have been running their own rowdy performance ... AMY MCTEAR You don’t get what you do for him. You’re like his manic pixie dream girl or something.” Jamie... MICHELLE HODKIN I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it. MICHELLE HODKIN She can't help what she does to you. She is your weakness, as you are hers. MICHELLE HODKIN I tilted my head up and asked, “What would you do if I kissed you right now?” He pretended ... MICHELLE HODKIN I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the... NATALIE ZEA But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was mo... ISHMAEL BEAH Middleton hit two or three takedowns on everyone but Ross. The kids landed on their backs, so he pin... BILL PERRY He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a p... V. THEIA That's the funniest thing about this. Everyone has their own interpretation, and that's OK. MARC DEMMON Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or ... JANE AUSTEN Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or mo... JANE AUSTEN There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memo... SUE CAMPBELL Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools. HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL She has changed so much about the women's side of the sport. Hannah is always going all out, and she... GRETCHEN BLEILER Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I'... JAMES ARTHUR These kids could all grow up and be rich and eat lobster the rest of their lives. And nothing will t... AL VISCONTI Sexuality is so much less provocative than everyone makes it out to be. What's really underneath it?... MARIA BELLO For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,
Or as the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa co... ALAN PARKER Each Mules' team the last 12 years had their own mark on the school and on the program in some way. ... DARIN HENDRICKSON Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debau... JOHN HERSCHEL I empathise with the fact that people want to look their best. A hat is all about how it makes you f... PHILIP TREACY Apple, for example, has refreshed their desktop product line, positioning them very well for the sec... DAVID BAILEY These are drugs that we know save lives and save money, and still we're only using them in less than... ALLISON ROSEN We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glo... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We're about helping those that need and we've got people that have come into this area who have lost... DALE PERRY Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt... PETER C. GOLDMARK, JR. Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt... PETER C. GOLDMARK JR.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes... MARA WILSON I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, a... MARA WILSON I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seem... MARA WILSON Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at leas... MARA WILSON Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in th... MARA WILSON If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And ... MARA WILSON 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well. MARA WILSON No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry. MARA WILSON Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious. MARA WILSON The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were ... MARA WILSON The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Eve... MARA WILSON Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're tal... MARA WILSON 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to wa... MARA WILSON I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppos... MARA WILSON I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because ... MARA WILSON I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased o... MARA WILSON If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into som... MARA WILSON I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rathe... MARA WILSON I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprai... MARA WILSON I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've b... MARA WILSON People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison ... MARA WILSON My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting wa... MARA WILSON I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Ho... MARA WILSON I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed imag... MARA WILSON Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same ... MARA WILSON I love violent Shakespeare. It is to me what steak is to some people: the bloodier the better. MARA WILSON I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple ... MARA WILSON I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have ... MARA WILSON The idea of living forever makes me uncomfortable, and at this point I've lived long enough and seen... MARA WILSON Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I ... MARA WILSON I always root for the defense. WELLINGTON MARA We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough. WELLINGTON MARA I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it. WELLINGTON MARA The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a ru... WELLINGTON MARA The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it. 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JOHN MARA There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy ... ROONEY MARA I'm thrilled to be in the final. It's not a great way to win a match, but I'm so happy to be in my f... MARA SANTANGELO I tried to be aggressive after losing the first set and also concentrated better. I am happy with th... MARA SANTANGELO I wasn't sure of this after losing the first set, but I remained positive. The first-set loss actual... MARA SANTANGELO If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hard... ROONEY MARA My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925, WELLINGTON MARA I don't need one of those, WELLINGTON MARA Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table. WELLINGTON MARA We should all share I guess, ... Or we're going to lose some of the smaller teams down the line, and... WELLINGTON MARA I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it. WELLINGTON MARA Since he took over for Pete Rozelle, we've had unparalleled prosperity, popularity and labor peace. ... JOHN MARA We would have liked to build it yesterday. But we are pretty much on target. BILL MARA You wouldn't even be able to see us from the street. BILL MARA We envision it to be a center for research and life planning that people from all over the state wil... BILL MARA It's never needed vindication. It was that fancy stuff that needed to prove itself. WELLINGTON MARA Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. WELLINGTON MARA I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am be... ROONEY MARA I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the mo... ROONEY MARA a minor inconvenience. JOHN MARA I wanted a football man. Now I'm extremely happy the way it turned out. WELLINGTON MARA I can't help but think he would have been so embarrassed by this. He would have shook his head and t... WELLINGTON MARA Ronnie, why are you so good to me? WELLINGTON MARA Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell your fortune. Cross my palm with gold and it will certainly ... MARA AMBERLY He was on his back. I don't think he ever saw where the puck was. He just made a swat at it. That's ... PAUL MARA The pieces of the puzzle are visible, but not the grand design. Images flicker and dance like memori... MARA AMBERLY The Penn family, with the loving support of family and longtime friends, buried their youngest son a... MARA BUXBAUM The Penn family would appreciate the media's respect of their privacy during this difficult time. MARA BUXBAUM Developing diagnostic tests for targeted cancer therapies and making them available to physicians an... MARA ASPINALL The success of this film has created an opening for innumerable conversations about transgender issu... MARA KEISLING At least one chamber of Congress has finally made a statement that it is not acceptable to hurt or k... MARA KEISLING Children can learn to play as a team -- and they learn you don't always win. That's something, this ... MARA KAPLAN I don't think it's appropriate -- except when they're very, very young -- for parents to let their k... MARA KAPLAN Playing in the dining room, at the kitchen table, or on the family room floor creates a whole differ... MARA KAPLAN We are anticipating at least as good a turnout for the opening of the actual house, and media intere... MARA HARTMANN We found out we were doing much better than we thought we were. MARA HARTMANN A lot of people who come in are families, whether they're participating in it or not. MARA HARTMANN The numbers have stayed pretty much about this amount for the past several years. MARA HARTMANN The deal will buy Pfizer some additional breathing room, as we had expected sales and earnings per s... MARA GOLDSTEIN Unlike Shanghai and Hong Kong, which have numerous tourists to support the retail market, the Taiwan... MARA WANG They need to achieve better market segmentation by developing different retail forms, such as increa... MARA WANG Marks & Spencer has been observing the Taiwanese market for a long time and is interested in setting... MARA WANG A lot of the earliest emblems were designs for printers' marks. MARA WADE It was the first time you could mass-produce images. MARA WADE They thought that hieroglyphs were a secret language ... that they were ideograms that could more ac... MARA WADE Our diet starts when we are born and it makes sense that what you eat over a lifetime will make a di... MARA VITOLINS The study was testing the belief that lowering total fat would reduce the risk of cancer. Since the ... MARA VITOLINS It's going to be very tough for me. I've never beaten her and she's full of confidence as this is he... MARA SANTANGELO It was a lot tougher than I expected. What proved significant was that I was right there in the cont... MARA SANTANGELO I knew it was going to be a tough match and it was. She is so hard to play against. I know I was up ... MARA SANTANGELO I had a request today from Mr. Speight for him to come and see me, KAMISESE MARA That I will not be able to oblige, KAMISESE MARA We are going to face not only purgatory, but hell, KAMISESE MARA the position of the indigenous community will be protected and enhanced. KAMISESE MARA not in accordance with the constitution and ... therefore unlawful. KAMISESE MARA We will have a dialogue and see what they offer, ... I cannot say I will put back the government tha... KAMISESE MARA It's a pretty low period right now. We had two fantastic games versus Buffalo and Toronto, and to co... PAUL MARA I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we... 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More open-mindedness is happening - in some c... MARA BROCK AKIL I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and bles... MARA BROCK AKIL Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your... PEGGY O'MARA The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. PEGGY O'MARA I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm... JASON O'MARA Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your... AUGUST WILSON I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're... CHANDRA WILSON I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, an... RUSSELL WILSON I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to lif... AUGUST WILSON I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. RAINN WILSON You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic. SLOAN WILSON I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ... TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,... TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime. TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents. TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what... TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials... TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai... TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an... TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years... TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki... TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I... TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec... TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int... TAYLOR WILSON I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mea... TAYLOR WILSON I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overse... RAINN WILSON I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that... RAINN WILSON The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is t... RAINN WILSON I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. RAINN WILSON I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking... RAINN WILSON I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to... RAINN WILSON Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show. RAINN WILSON I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded. RAINN WILSON I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read b... RAINN WILSON I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm hap... RAINN WILSON