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Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate. -- Larry Kramer
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I have peanut M&M's up there." "Not my style" "Raisinets." "Feh." "Sam Adams." Thor narrowed his eyes. "Cold?" "Downright icy." Thor crossed his arms over his chest and told him self he was not pouting like a five-year-old. "I want Milk Duds. -- J.R. Ward
America is just downright mean. -- Michelle Obama
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda. -- Randall Terry
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. -- Mike Davidson
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. -- Dick Cavett
Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins. -- Joe Klein
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players. -- Stephen Rodrick
Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes. -- Pat Burns
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear. -- Michael Johnson
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it. -- Jay McInerney
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -- H. L. Mencken
I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. -- Tom Petty
It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible. -- Rashida Jones
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. -- Patrick Henry
Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases. -- Srikumar Rao
When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates. -- Paul Ryan
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. -- Paul Farmer
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering. -- Carre Otis
It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing. -- Barry McGee
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. -- John Adams
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions. -- Graydon Carter
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. -- Tom Petty
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries. -- James Surowiecki
Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once. -- Paul Feig
Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling. -- Tom Petty
This Reese's Chevrolet was downright awesome. -- Kevin Harvick
If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. -- Mary Norris
I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it. -- Gordon Ramsay
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nothing is impossible. It can be downright difficult, but not impossible. -- Susan Boyle
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. -- Gail Godwin
My worst song is stimulating beyond words. My best songs are downright scary. -- Ted Nugent
I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore. -- Lauren Kate
Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric. -- Lindsey Graham
People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes. -- Pat Burns
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist. -- Martha Gellhorn
I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans. -- A. L. Rowse
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. -- Allen W. Wood
the virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages. -- Marsden Hartley
When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties. -- Marieta Maglas
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. -- Eric Maisel
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. -- Francine Pascal
Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable. -- Paul G. Stoltz
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly. -- Jesse D. Jennings
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke. -- Maureen Johnson
(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism. -- Matthew Tindal
Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness. -- Leo Burnett
Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed. -- Brandon Sanderson
I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama. -- Gucci Mane
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. -- Anita Loos
... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?' -- Walker Evans
I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic. -- Dave Smalley
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. -- Willie Nelson
Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. -- Charles Churchill
I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar. -- Dan Bejar
I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. -- Sufe Bradshaw
If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong. -- Kathryn Schulz
...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. -- William Shenstone
The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing. -- Violet Cross
I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish. -- James Patterson
I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins. -- Katherine Mansfield
The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable. -- Volkmar Sigusch
[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page. -- Jay Carr
the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines. -- Clara Fraser
Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems. -- Nella Larsen
The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect. -- James Moore
The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was. -- Jeanette Winterson
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that. -- Al Franken
"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel? -- Tom Shales
I'm not a one-sex person, and yet I hate the term bisexual. It sounds creepy to me, and I don't think I'm creepy. There are times when I feel downright romantic. -- Martina Navratilova
Trace of Magic caught me up fast and pulled me in tight for a fun, action-and-sass adventure full of deadly magic and dangerous romance. Diana Pharaoh Francis delivers a downright terrific read. -- Devon Monk
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. -- Thomas de Quincey
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. -- William Hazlitt
Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous. -- Frederick Lenz
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Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous. -- Frederick Lenz
Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better. -- Lionel Shriver

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