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Hate Quotes

"I hate to be categorized."

Martin C. Smith, American Journalist

"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

Horace, Roman Poet

"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

"I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll."

Ginger Baker, British Musician

Hate, Jazz, Play

"He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed."

Ovid, Roman Poet

"I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up."

Elaine Dundy, American Novelist

"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."

Leslie Caron, French Actress

"My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong."

Colin Greenwood, British Musician

"There's no hate lost between us."

Thomas Middleton, English Poet

"I hate the word wholesome."

Julie Andrews, English Actress

"I hate painting."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."

Eddie Van Halen, Dutch Musician

"A real job is a job you hate."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

Hate, Nothing, Sentimentality

"I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks."

Jeremy Paxman, British Journalist

Hate, Help, Word

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."

J. D. Salinger, American Novelist

"I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off."

Roger Moore, English Actor

"I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it."

Vivian Campbell, Irish Musician

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

"We can scarcely hate anyone that we know."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

"I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate."

Elsa Maxwell, American Writer

"I hate the word sexy."

Ursula Andress, Swiss Actress

"I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Hate, London, Weather

"I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?."

Jackie Chan, Chinese Actor

"I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to."

Camryn Manheim, American Actress

"I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point."

Len Wein, American Cartoonist

"I don't have a dishwasher, and I hate washing dishes."

Kristanna Loken, American Actress

"I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera."

Ford Frick, American Journalist

"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Hate, Lying, Mind

"I hate having to read the manual."

Trevor Horn, English Musician

"I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!"

Rihanna, American Musician

"Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary."

Brian Celio, American Novelist

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

James Boswell, Scottish Lawyer

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar."

Drew Carey, American Actor

Hate, Job, Support

"I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech."

Ann Coulter, American Journalist

Hate, Hurt, Police, Riot

"I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed."

Vanessa Hudgens, American Actress

"I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever."

Nigel Kennedy, English Musician

"I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself."

Drea De Matteo, American Actress

"I hate zoos."

Laurie Anderson, American Musician

"TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air."

Charles Kuralt, American Journalist

Hate, Living, Television, Writing

"I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it."

Jessica Simpson, American Musician

"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

"I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it."

Marc Ribot, American Musician

Hate, Nostalgia, Nothing, Want

"I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional."

Alex Morrison, Canadian Soldier

"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."

Steve Martin, American Comedian

"Above anything else, I hate to lose."

Jackie Robinson, American Athlete

"I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid."

Carroll O'Connor, American Actor

Hate, Pride, Race

"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

William James, American Philosopher

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