Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting."
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Disgusting
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Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places."
Petrarch
Poet, Scholar
"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."
Euripides
Playwright
"For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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"Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least."
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"There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults."
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"All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it."
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"I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is."
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"These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties."
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"It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?"
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"Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves."
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"No, I love watching autopsies of disgusting mutant monsters"
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"Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind."
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"To think someone can go out and sell something about you is really disgusting. I'm much more careful now."
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"The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to."
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"Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard."
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"I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others."
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"You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting."
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"Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent."
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