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Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it. -- Lawrence Bender
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers. -- Jon Niccum
After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment. -- Catherine Hardwicke
I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth. -- Rainn Wilson
Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth. -- Al Gore
Yeah i saw An Inconvenient Truth, and i dont want to say it was preachy but let's not kid ourselves, i've got far more important work to do -- Zach Braff
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982) -- Jeffrey R. Holland
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)" -- Jeffrey R. Holland
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years. -- Saffron Burrows
We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers. -- Noreena Hertz
Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so. -- Joseph Boyden
I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient! -- Mary Karr
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. -- Denis Diderot
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them. -- Daniel Goleman
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. -- Josh Billings
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it. -- Jackson Browne
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. -- Walter Lippmann
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you. -- Dick Francis
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. -- Walter Lippmann
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. -- Arnold Bennett
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. -- Bert Williams
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. -- Sarah Brady
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law. -- Jesse Ventura
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. -- Max Weber
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. -- Mitt Romney
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Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. -- Eric Alterman
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. -- Norbert Wiener
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. -- Richard Schickel
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect. -- Michele Bachmann
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives. -- Dan Buettner
Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine? -- Elizabeth Holmes
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure. -- Eric Ries
If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run. -- Gretchen Rubin
All life-changing love is inconvenient. -- Timothy Keller
Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient. -- A.J. Darkholme
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. -- Kiera Cass
As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient. -- Shannon Hale
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. -- Milton Berle
Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic. -- Terry Bozzio
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient -- Milton Berle
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient. -- Mark Twain
No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient. -- Arthur Miller
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth. -- Michael Kinsley
Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times. -- Amelia Earhart
But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love. -- Gayle Forman
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. -- Elizabeth Janeway
It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient. -- James Weldon Johnson
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient. -- Moms Mabley
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. -- Sydney Smith
Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with. -- Celia Fremlin
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. -- Brandon Sanderson
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In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed. -- Gore Vidal
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. -- Victor Hugo
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. -- Ellis Peters
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. -- George Washington
I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me. -- Jesse Jackson, Jr.
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient. -- Edward Coke
If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient. -- Pema Chodron
She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply. -- John Mark Green
Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so. -- Barack Obama
Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down. -- Peter Kingsley
It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done. -- Winston Churchill
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. -- Glen Cook
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel. -- Teresa of Ávila
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. -- Lawrence Summers
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel. -- Teresa of Ávila
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's. -- Annette Curtis Klause
It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient -- Barack Obama
Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite -- P. C. Cast
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. -- Lois Lowry
Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient. -- Anthony Standen
I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings! -- Henny Youngman
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair? -- Karen Marie Moning
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. -- Bertrand Russell
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil. -- Alan Greenspan
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. -- Gail Carriger
Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom? -- Charles Grodin
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death. -- Albert Mohler
When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone. -- Rodger Berman
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you. -- Dick Francis
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. -- Lewis Carroll
That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone. -- Jeffery Deaver
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. -- Teresa of Avila
Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it? -- Karen Marie Moning
It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them. -- Terry Pratchett
Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient. -- Brandon Sanderson
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. -- George Orwell
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times. -- Harold MacMillan
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. -- Paul Davies
Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body. -- Virginia Graham
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. -- Peter Ustinov
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school. -- Michael Crichton
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to -- Edith Wharton
You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict. -- Mallory Ortberg
Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe. -- Guy P. Harrison
It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer. -- Agatha Christie
Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'ï¿½d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. - Jacob Black -- Stephenie Meyer
You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply will not go away. -- Jim Butcher
But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people. -- Kelly Cutrone
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . . -- Alexander Hamilton
We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued. -- Mary Pipher
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere. -- E. B. White
I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts. -- Jonathan Evison
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. -- Mother Teresa
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse. -- Desmond Tutu
I don't want to be without God's blessings. If it's inconvenient, then it's just inconvenient. If somebody don't like it, then somebody just don't like it. That is part of me. That's who I am. -- Charlie Daniels
A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it. -- Michele Bachmann
... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp. -- Charles Dickens

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