Bad Things Quotes - Page 2

• The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

  Moby

  Missing, Musician, Working Alone

  "Musician Moby". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Nice, Diversity, Would Be

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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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• When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Happens, Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

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

  Jo Brand

  Comedy, Madness

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• A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, People, Appreciate

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• Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

  Michael Moore

  Morning, Reading, Book

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

  Dario Argento

  Phases, Nostalgia

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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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 love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

  Adele

  Drama, Flip, Bits

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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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• 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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• Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Nature, Swans

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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