Bad Things Quotes - Page 32

• There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

  David Allen

  Decision, Doe, May

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Important, Benefits

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• Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

  James Dickey

  Occupation, May, Poetry Is

  James Dickey, Ronald Baughman (1989). “The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• I'm living the life I always dreamed of living. From the time I was a youngster I wanted to be a celebrity. It's a great life. The only bad thing is that people are more interested in your personal life than they are in your work and it's freaky

  Jennifer Lopez

  Live Life, People, Freaky

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• Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Infinite, Capacity

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• Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Beach, Erosion, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

  Peter Norvig

  Ak 47, People, Tables

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• In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Beautiful, Utah, Water

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Art, Lucky, Actors

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

  Sophia Myles

  Strong, Media, Giving

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• Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  People, Important, News

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

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• You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

  John Barrowman

  Hero, Sacrifice, Order

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• Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Drama, Tvs, Profile

  "Strictly Come Dancing exclusive: Cherie Lunghi: 'I'm too old to be a sex symbol'". www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2008.

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• Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

  Danny Bonaduce

  People, Want, Damage

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• I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

  Kevin Smith

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview: Kevin Smith". Interview with Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

  Vin Diesel

  Careers, Diversification, Diesel

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 2, 2005.

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• To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Champion, Trying

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• Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

  Garrison Keillor

  Journalist, Materials, Happens

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• Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Good Things, Happens, Things Happen

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• Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

  Megan Martha White

  Dwarves, Cities, Red Lipstick

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Stupid, Iraq

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 12 Apr. 2003

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• [The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

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• Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Decision, Advice

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

  Macaulay Culkin

  People, Church, Needs

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