Bipasha Basu

I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.

Indian Actress

Emily Browning

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

Australian Actress

Kevyn Aucoin

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

American Artist

Kenneth Branagh

I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.

Irish Actor

Judy Parfitt

Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don't look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out.

English Actress

Dave Barry

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

American Journalist

Simon Le Bon

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

English Musician

Mahima Chaudhry

My choice for life partner has been pathetic. So, I have told my mother to look into it.

Helen Keller

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

American Author

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

American Writer

Used when someone seems so helpless or unfortunate it makes you feel sorry for them.

Empathy Trigger

'Pathetic' can show sympathy without necessarily disrespecting someone's effort or situation.

Not Disrespect

Often used to describe appearance or expression that indicates suffering or sadness.

Observational Use

Describes something as inadequate, usually failing to meet a standard or expectation.

Negative Assessment

When using 'pathetic,' the criticism is strong and often shows you are disappointed.

Strength of Criticism

Used to express frustration or irritation about a situation or action.

Conveys Frustration

Shows you think something is so bad that it's silly or not worthy of serious attention.

Scornful Dismissal

Implies that the attempt or effort is laughably insufficient.

Mockery Tone

 and we can't challenge bias unless we're aware of it. Nobody's born ageist, but it starts at early childhood, around the same time attitudes towards race and gender start to form, because negative messages about late life bombard us from the media and popular culture at every turn. Right? Wrinkles are ugly. Old people are pathetic.

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 and look what happened to it. Here's a beautiful project. They really knew it'd last forever, because they'd build it out of absolutely huge stones. And now it's a pathetic ruin and no one even knows what it was used for. That's what happens to buildings. They're vulnerable. Even the most durable and intactable buildings,

Stewart Brand: Building...

 and how pathetic is that I'm still skateboarding, but there is -- there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on. So thank you for your time.

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 power they didn't want to call him King in case that gave him ideas or his successor ideas so they wanted to give him the humblest meager most pathetic title they could think of and that title was president president they didn't invent the title I mean it existed before but it just meant somebody who

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 and if you live in Iowa, some people are awesome and some people are pathetic. It's not a question of what degree you have or where you happen to live in the country. The distinction is just a crude simplification to arouse political power. But I would encourage people to watch a television news show

Political common ground...

 where you can see that the amount of wildlife being sold in this case sea horses is absolutely mind-boggling I'm hoping that my photos can help spark an informed nuanced and pathetic compassionate conversation about what's going on if we're going to solve environmental crisis we need to talk to

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 But we now stand on the verge of another revolution in geolocation accuracy. What if I told you that the two-meter positioning that our current cell phones and our TomToms give us is pathetic compared to what we could be getting? For some time now, it's been known that if you pay attention

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 They're talking about love and compassion and wisdom and enlightenment, but they are acting selfish and pathetic. So, Buddha's teaching has lost its momentum. I know the next Buddha will come a few thousand years from now,

Robert Thurman:...

 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion, it deserves no treatment as minority martyrdom,

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 real up-tempo happy one and then Ruiz I asked what i should play any thought this one song that I think is my most pathetic

Pathetic

Empathy Trigger

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