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But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

— Maynard James Keenan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm probably the most negative person around.

— Natalie du Toit

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

— Ed Koch

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

— Rosie Perez

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

— John Newcombe

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

— V. S. Naipaul

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

— Hope Davis

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

— Mathew Brady

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't do negative things.

— Rajeev Shukla

I'm not a negative person.

— Ian Somerhalder

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

— Jenni Rivera