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Obnoxious Quotes

I live to harass white folks.

Derrick A. Bell, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (2005). “The Derrick Bell Reader”, p.471, NYU Press

You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.

"A Conversation With Frank Zappa". "Oui" Interview with Dave Rothman, April 1979.

Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

"Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett". Book by Leo Burnett, 1961.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

"The TAM London 2010 live blog" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.

I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.82, Open Road Media

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1868-1885”

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

Interview with Charles W. Colson, graphics8.nytimes.com. February 13, 1973.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

Charles Lamb (1870). “The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.454

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.514

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.101

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

"Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.