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• I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

  Greg Egan

  Thinking, Decision, Lost

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• As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don't put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a "no" into a "maybe" into a "yes." If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the "yes" turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Jail

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Real, Mistake

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin

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• When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Decision, Levels, Proportion

  W. E. B. Griffin (2004). “By Order of the President”, Putnam Adult

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• He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

  Orson Scott Card

  Sorry, Decision, Undone

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.128, Macmillan

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• Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

  Eddie Murphy

  Thumbs Up, Decision, Roger

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

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• Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you've made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are.

  Esther Hicks

  Decision, Way, Want

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• Bad decisions, good intentions.

  Drake

  Decision, Good Intentions, Intention

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• Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

  Paul Theroux

  Men, Decision, Late

  "'Travel is nasty'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2002.

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• I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Teacher, Guitar, Play

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• A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

  Dan Ariely

  Simple, Decision, Debt

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Moving, Pigs

  Max Lucado (2012). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

  Gene Simmons

  Kids, Decision, Life Experience

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2009.

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• Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

  Michelle Williams

  Decision, Guilty, Simplest

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

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• Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

  Chuck Hagel

  Reality, People, Decision

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• That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, Decision, Soldier

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• I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.

  Dane DeHaan

  Believe, Views, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

  Gary Johnson

  Wall, Decision, Criminals

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• We remain silent because we've taken on a responsibility and/or shame that was never ours to carry. Forgive yourself for things that were not your fault. Bad decisions, mistaken trust, physical weakness, or too much fear to act do not make an assault on you or someone you care about your fault. Ever.

  Tammara Webber

  Taken, Responsibility, Decision

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• The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Decision, Ignorant

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

  Chris Paine

  Thinking, Views, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, Years, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Dog, Commitment, Light

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• Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

  Amy Seimetz

  Boredom, Decision, Spurs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

  Colin Angle

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Decision

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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