#disappointing

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#choosing #disappointing #does #half #happiness

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#because #disappointing #edited #essence #little

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#could #disappointing #drama #i #life

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#art form #become #disappointing #entertainment #films

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #being #books #children #day

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#around #disappointing #enthusiastic #other #people

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. ↗

— Van Morrison

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