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I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. -- George Eliot
A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. -- Jerry Saltz
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments. -- Ron Chernow
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. -- Hannah Arendt
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms. -- J. M. Coetzee
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. -- Daniel Okrent
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. -- James Dickey
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' -- Brian Eno
It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged, so I had to pull out the negative aspects of me to attribute to the role. -- Carson Grant
Startups often have to do dubious things. -- Paul Graham
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. -- Gregory David Roberts
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. -- George Eliot
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. -- Ben Hecht
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. -- Julian Barnes
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories -- George Eliot
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. -- Jerry Saltz
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. -- Lytton Strachey
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. -- John Agyekum Kufuor
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. -- John Agyekum Kufuor
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. -- Dick Cavett
Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian. -- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out. -- Al Michaels
That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. -- Benny Goodman
The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations. -- Noam Chomsky
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. -- Eric Alterman
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character. -- Mark Waters
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. -- Eric Alterman
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. -- L. Neil Smith
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldnt find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. -- L. Neil Smith
Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package. -- Jon Katz
I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy. -- Harry Leslie Smith
It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there. -- Nick Minchin
I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played. -- Robert Loggia
You see, my Lord Archbishop, what is "dubious" about my theology is not that it contradicts particular doctrinal teachings, things are much worse or better: what I want, is no more and no less than a fundamental change in the whole way that theology is done today; but I want this out of faith, not out of faithlessness. -- Eugen Drewermann
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version. -- Stacy Schiff
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself. -- Marcia Angell
Indefinite plans get dubious results. -- Natalie Goldberg
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. -- William Cowper
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game. -- Viktor Korchnoi
I'm saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too. -- Xiaolu Guo
He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary. -- Plautus
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere. -- S. J. Perelman
Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs. -- Freeman Dyson
Despite the dubious statistics "¦ democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting. -- Rory Stewart
You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed. -- John Major
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. -- John Walford
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. -- Eleanor Antin
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes. -- Robert Brustein
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. -- Wallace Stegner
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit. -- Paul Klee
I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious. -- Sherman Alexie
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it. -- Max Lerner
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long. -- Gene Cernan
He's mad at me.""For what?""For not being like him."Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?""Basically. -- Rainbow Rowell
Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It's a groundling thing. -- Martha Wells
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks. -- Norman Manea
I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious. -- Philip Kitcher
It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty. -- Albert Kesselring
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas. -- Andrei Sakharov
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. -- Arthur Ashe
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention. -- Angela Merkel
This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of Johnâ??s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral. -- Brian D. McLaren
So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness. -- Nick Hornby
[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living. -- Sally Stanford
My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders. -- Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it? -- Guy Pearce
Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war. -- Helen Thomas
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies. -- Joyce Carol Oates
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity. -- Hubert Harrison
The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status. -- Anthony Bourdain
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive. -- E. B. White
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence. -- Tobsha Learner
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God. -- Tim Hecker
I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists. -- Craig F. Bohren
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them. -- John Silber

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