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It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.