Bad Things Quotes - Page 26

• I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

  Sophia Bush

  People, Rude, Attention

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• The bad thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. The good thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. During times of trouble, the support system was massive.

  Linda Howard

  Support Systems, Issues, Towns

  Linda Howard (2011). “Open Season”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Trying, Sometimes, Happens

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• It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

  Roger Moore

  Film, Tempting, Film Set

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• When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

  Bill Nighy

  Honest, Grim

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• When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for... getting attention is not a bad thing. And letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary what the facts are is not a bad thing.

  Brit Hume

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Agony, People, Effort

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• I noticed that difference early on, like if you were successful in rock 'n' roll, that was a really bad thing, you almost had to hide it. You had these guys selling 200 million records with dirty T-shirts on. I was like, 'Come on, man. Come on. We know you're successful.' Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

  Jay-Z

  Dirty, Successful, Men

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• Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Order, Law

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

  John Lennon

  Thinking, Names, Political

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 226), 2000.

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• If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

  Derrick Rose

  Smart, People, Decision

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• It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Minorities

  "The Busy Life of Being a Lightning Rod for Bush". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• It's not a bad Thing to fall in Love.

  Justin Timberlake

  Falling In Love, Fall

  Song: Not A Bad Thing, 2013

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• I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there's great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.

  Tom Cruise

  Technology, Thinking, Benefits

  "Tom Cruise talks about "Minority Report". Interview with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2002.

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• There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Who I Am, Ideas, People

  "Jim Gaffigan Reveals Why He Did the $5 Download and the Risks That Came With It (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2012.

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• There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.

  Wendell Berry

  Growth, Fuel, Economy

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.167, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

  Seth Godin

  Drawing, Boards, Best Work

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• I'm no longer afraid of conflict, and I don't think conflict is a bad thing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, Conflict

  "Beyonce Just Released a Very Personal Short Film on Feminism, Body Image, and Life" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 12, 2014.

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• If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Wipe, Littles, Annihilation

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• Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

  Amy Bloom

  People, Interesting, Good People

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• The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

  Clay Shirky

  Challenges, Done, Internet

  "Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform - the numbers don't add up'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

  David Perlmutter

  Track, Brain, Survival

  "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.” As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there.

  Kim Severson

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.13, Penguin

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