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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited. -- John Cleese
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. -- Ann Coulter
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it. -- Rush Limbaugh
I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. -- Tracey Ullman
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. -- Alexandra David-Neel
There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters. -- Adam McKay
I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited. -- Matt Salmon
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards! -- Charles Spurgeon
It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore. -- Alan Moore
Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition. -- Dalai Lama
These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. -- Jane Russell
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. -- Pat Conroy
I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real. -- Tracy McMillan
I didn't like the 'Survivor' shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. -- Sharon Lawrence
I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way. -- Don Rickles
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. -- Ovid
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy. -- Michael Schur
I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge. -- Cheryl Tiegs
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all. -- Charles de Lint
I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory. -- George A. Romero
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot. -- Ian Mcewan
So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited. -- Lee Scott
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
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ. -- Ann Coulter
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. -- Nina Bawden
It feels like every movie I've ever done, I always expected to have rocks thrown through my windows or have people protesting and it never happens and so I wasn't really ever that worried just so long as it wasn't mean spirited. -- George Ratliff
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it. -- Wayne Newton
My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct. -- Jane Russell
Fox does the NFL a lot like they program the rest of the network. There's sort of a locker room sense of humor that prevails. With ESPN, it's more like a pat-you-on-the-back kind of comedy. I mean, they'll all get on each other a little bit, but it's never mean-spirited. -- Frank Caliendo
I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector. -- Dick Cheney
The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way. -- John Waters
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended. -- Dennis Prager
I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy. -- Zoe Kravitz
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless. -- Amy Bloom
I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. --
I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt. -- Don Rickles
I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning. -- Frank Gehry
I want to try to counter what Donald Trump says because a lot of it is mean-spirited and would hurt people. -- Hillary Clinton
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. -- Walt Whitman
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad. -- Aurelio Voltaire Hernández
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry. -- Sarah Fielding
I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy. -- Melissa McCarthy
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor. -- Tom Tomorrow

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