Bad Things Quotes

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Good Things, Humans

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• I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards in holocausts and serial killers. I like to understand why people do bad things.

  Ira Sachs

  Reading, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.

  Sonia

  People, Decision, Can Do

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• When you play good, everything is good, but when you dont play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

  Yani Tseng

  Thinking, Play, Good Things

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• There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

  Ray Dalio

  Strong, Eye, Would Be

  "Ray Dalio eclipses George Soros as most successful fund manager" by Simon Goodley, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

  Kirk Douglas

  Optimism, What If, Speech

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  Willem Dafoe

  Exercise, Theatre, Vices

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

  DMX

  Done, May, Persons

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

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• To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

  Fred Durst

  Ego, Great Things, Walks

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• It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

  Confucius

  Missing Someone, Hate, Love You

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• It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Family, Children, Parenting

  "My Mother's House". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1922.

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• But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Today Life, People, Live For Today

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• Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

  Willie Aames

  Use, Stubborn, Good Things

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• There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Up To You, Good Things

  "Coping With Crisis: Advice For The Hard Times From Deepak Chopra" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2012.

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• You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

  Tori Amos

  Lying, Healing, People

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• I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

  Dario Argento

  Phases, Nostalgia

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• If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Life, Sports, Failure

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• When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

  Sally Field

  May, Good Things, Certain

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• Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

  Jo Brand

  Comedy, Madness

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• Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

  Samuel Butler

  Dream, Prayer, World

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• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Asking Why, People, Different

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• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  Zac Efron

  Hate, Humble, People

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