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  • The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things they say, but that isn't going to work on Trump the way it works on conservatives, for a whole host of reasons.

    Mean   Years   Way  
    "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.
  • I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

    Party   Mean   Thinking  
  • All great companies have spirit and culture. Mean spirited returns mean spirit.

    Mean   Culture   Return  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.

    Lying   Grief   Writing  
    Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.87, Pan Macmillan
  • I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals and people, which is against the spirit of Islam. While I stand by the truths that he spoke, I must condemn in the strongest terms the manner in which those truths were represented.

    Mean   People   Listening  
    "Farrakhan Repudiates Speech For Tone, Not Anti-Semitism" by Steven A. Holmes, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 1994.
  • Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

    Powerful   Mean   Names  
    Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.
  • If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

    Mean   Support   Looks  
  • Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

    Strong   Mean   Learning  
  • What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

    Fun   Real   Mean  
    "Don Rickles (1926 - 2017)". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 5, 2017.
  • I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

    Mean   Opinion   Belts  
    Source: www.maxim.com
  • When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top, from the President, is following mean-spirited tendencies: fear and undue caution and distrust of the other, so it's very depressing.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

    Christian   Jesus   Mean  
    Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.77, Crown Forum
  • Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

    Mean   Soul   Suffering  
  • I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

    Mean   People   Cynical  
  • It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

    Alan Moore (2008). “V for Vendetta”, p.6, DC
  • The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.

    Mean   Jealous   Thinking  
  • I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

    Mean   Talking   Guy  
  • You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon during the family vacation. Why does it work? Why did it stick?And there is an answer.When they [Democrates] ran the ads about guy's wife dying with cancer...? Remember this? This was a serious series of ads, and it was deadly effective.

    Running   Dog   Cancer  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

    Christian   Mean   Firsts  
    Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.77, Crown Forum
  • I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

    Taken   Mean   Secret  
    Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.

    Intervuew with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 22, 2011.
  • It feels like every movie I've ever done, I always expected to have rocks thrown through my windows or have people protesting and it never happens and so I wasn't really ever that worried just so long as it wasn't mean spirited.

    Mean   Rocks   Long  
    "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.
  • Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

    Children   Taken   Mean  
    "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, 2005.
  • I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

    Hate   Mean   Stuff  
    Source: www.playboy.com
  • Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.

    Uncles   Home   Mean  
    Slate magazine, July 17, 1997.
  • God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

    Children   Revenge   Mean  
  • Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

    His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
  • We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be not showing compassion or dignity or whatever code word is used to transmit the notion that we're mean-spirited, that we're selfish, and that we're probably bigoted and racist and don't want people here like that.

    "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.
  • I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

    Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese
  • I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.

    Mean   Texas   Hell  
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