#disagreeable

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. ↗

— William Hague

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man,” she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn’t said “abusive,” I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you. ↗

— Debby Bull

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I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. ↗

— Nellie Bly

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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

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You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do. ↗

— Judith Martin

#everything #right #you