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• Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

  Beau Willimon

  Self, Leader, Want

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• The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.

  James C. Collins

  People, Leader, Transition

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

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• I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

  Albert Belle

  Writing, Media, Chicago

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• Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Talking, Excess

  FaceBook post by Oscar de la Renta from Nov 27, 2012

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• I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.

  Terry Crews

  Running, Football, Fun

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• You know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Remember, Sometimes, Knows

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

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• All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

  Jamie Ford

  Forever, Goes On, Good Things

  Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.573, Ballantine Books

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• Russia a very powerful nuclear country and so is America. If we have a good relationship with Russia, believe me, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Powerful, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

  Morarji Desai

  Wrestling, Difficult And Easy, Confucianism

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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• Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.

  Tony Blair

  Class, Never Quit, Royal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When people do bad things intentionally, they know they've done them. But it's not to be cared about. That's the problem with the tabloid press; they dramatize these things until there's a state of frenzy. People see frenzy and they go, "What?" Then they clamor toward the frenzy. We all do it. It's a primal, natural response.

  Julia Roberts

  People, Done, Tabloids

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• As a Jewish man who has no interest in Judaism whatsoever, there's something in me that says when bad things have happened in the past, people were supposed to get more active and speak up and prevent them. That's what's important to me is that everybody - and I don't care what side you're on. You can disagree with me, but everyone better get active. Everybody better vote and be thoughtful.

  Judd Apatow

  Men, Thoughtful, Past

  "Judd Apatow On His Characters: 'If Everyone Is Mature, There Is No Comedy'". Interview with Kelly Mcevers, wkms.org. February 17, 2017.

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• I can't leave India helpless. This responsibility must be taken and I will continue to do so. For all good and bad things, it is my responsibility. I do not regret anything. I believe, people of the country have given me the responsibility and I must fulfill it.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Regret, Believe

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• We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things, are done with uranium, including some bad things.

  Kevin Drum

  Country, Russia, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of saying, oh, well, you know, we don't need to worry about this because that's absolutely not the case. What [Hans] Rosling is doing is showing us an overall global trend, which in a sense tells us how bad things were - doesn't mean to say the problems are gone, doesn't mean to say they're any less.

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Successful, Worry

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

  Carolyn Hax

  Interesting, Way, Facts

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

  David Swanson

  Children, Thinking, Voting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm trying to just accept things, accept the beauty of things and the joy and positivity of things as they are in the moment and accept when it's not that way as well. Because, of course, none of it lasts forever. It's all going to change very rapidly. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It doesn't have to be panic-inducing. It can be just the way life is.

  Emma Stone

  Positivity, Joy, Forever

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters that write every day, and I'm definitely not one of those guys. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just kind of what I do.

  William Clark Green

  Song, Writing, Guy

  Source: maroonweekly.com

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• I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

  John Krasinski

  Daughter, Giving, Understanding

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.

  Gigi Hadid

  Believe, People, Good Things

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When God's children disobeyed their heavenly Father, they damaged everything. When Adam and Eve rebelled against the King of the universe, they broke the whole world. This is why there is evil and suffering. Bad things happen in a world that's broken.

  Greg Koukl

  Kings, Children, Father

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Real, Hero

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

  William Boyd

  Bereavement, Age, Boards

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• Melancholy is no bad thing.

  Sting

  Melancholy

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