Bad Things Quotes - Page 24

• An agenda is not a bad thing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Agendas

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• The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

  Julian Baggini

  Pain, Motivation, Animal

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2009.

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• Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

  Andrea Corr

  Hurt, Drinking, Thinking

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• Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

  Jon Ronson

  Adventure, Trying, Littles

  RINF News Interview, rinf.com. April 3, 2005.

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• You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

  Laz Alonso

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Competition, Magazines

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Goal, Projects

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

  Stephen Fry

  Weather, Annoyed, Pissed Off

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Heart, Play

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the Szemerédi Theorem.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Squares, Trying

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• In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Real, Laughing, Unhappy

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• In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.

  Sue Sanders

  Success, Business, Drama

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• Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, May, Impossible

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

  Spike Lee

  Stage, Humans, Human Beings

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

  Christian Bale

  Misunderstood, Actors, I Know The Truth

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Communication, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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• One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Party, Thinking, Government

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• For me, each of SNSD members is like my own body. If one gets hurts or hears bad things from someone else, it hurts me and pains me even more. And you know, it's impossible for only good things to happen to someone, so there will always be difficult and hurtful times; but during these times, I'm thankful that we're each other's supports and each other's strength. I hope in the future, we'll continue to lean on each other and be strong for each other. Also, when we need encouragement, we'll continue to look for each other too.

  Sunny

  Encouragement, Strong, Hurt

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• Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt

  Colleen Houck

  Keys, Hands, People

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from;
  the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.

  Antonio Machado

  Glasses, Knowing, Drink

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.111, Wesleyan University Press

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• (T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Communication, America

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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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• I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

  Richard Branson

  Past, Thinking, Albums

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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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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