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

  Jo Brand

  Comedy, Madness

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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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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• 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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• 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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• See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  War, School, Fields

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

  P. C. Cast

  Fighting, Giving

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.179, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Wish, Credit, Good Things

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, Focus, Kind

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• I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

  Clifford Geertz

  Atmosphere, Alive, Fields

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• It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Party, Home, Good Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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