Chris Martin
Musician
"I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted."
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J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse."
Stephen King
Author
"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
Freddie Mercury
Musician, Singer
"Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought."
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"Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight."
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"I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon."
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"Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."
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"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful."
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"There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached."
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"War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors."
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"What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer."
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"How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?"
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"It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere."
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"I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-."
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"Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail."
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"Living, it's awful for me."
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"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
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"I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence."
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"Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German."
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"I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves."
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"God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world."
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"I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen."
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"I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!"
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"This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store."
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