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• I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart.

  John Dillinger

  Heart, Guy, Littles

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• HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

  Rob Brezsny

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.7, Frog Books

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• Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Memories, Wind, Illusion

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing”

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• I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

  Rodney Atkins

  Exercise, Breathing, Stuff

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• I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Book, Thinking, Drug

  "MGMT Cover Story Bonus Q&A with Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser". Interview with Matt Fink, www.undertheradarmag.com. November 15, 2013.

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• The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

  Steven Pressfield

  Differences, Habit

  "Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work". Book by Steven Pressfields, 2012.

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• I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

  Angie Stone

  Always On The Go, Junk, Lasts

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• Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

  William James

  Funny, Broken, Habit

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• I asked the Zebra,
  are you black with white stripes?
  Or white with black stripes?
  And the zebra asked me,
  Are you good with bad habits?
  Or are you bad with good habits?

  Shel Silverstein

  Zebras, White, Black

  Shel Silverstein, “Who Does She Think She Is....”

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• There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

  Og Mandino

  Hands, Two, Vices

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• Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Giving, Smoking

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.81, The Mountaineers Books

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• In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Thinking, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 05, 2001.

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• Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Religious, Pain, Animal

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• When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

  Jemima Kirke

  Children, Cutting, Habit

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

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• There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

  Josh Duhamel

  Fall, Thinking, Long

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• People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

  Jon Stewart

  Men, People, Habit

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

  Edward Abbey

  Games, Boredom, Despair

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• London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

  William Sansom

  Hate, London, Habit

  William Sansom (1961). “Blue Skies, Brown Studies”

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• I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.

  JWoww

  Men, Emotional, Games

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• Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

  Ben Hecht

  Dark, Mind, Age

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• The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

  Ben Hecht

  Writing, People, Intellectual

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• I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Thinking, Voice

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

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• I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!

  Mariama Bâ

  Moving, Men, Expression

  Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.88, Heinemann

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Hope, Fashion

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