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• The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough
  about good things.

  Larry Crabb

  Passionate, Problem, Enough

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• You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Past, New Day

  "One Incredible Journey: The Ultimate Oprah and Gayle Conversation". Interview with Gayle King, www.oprah.com. May 10, 2011.

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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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• I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.

  Katy Perry

  Sex, Thinking, Bottles

  "Katy Perry Gives Lady Gaga a Run for Her Money With Sexy Rolling Stone Spread". www.foxnews.com. August 04, 2010.

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• Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

  Marilyn French

  Eye, Milk, Tvs

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Scientist, Stamps, Very Good

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• We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, People, Transition

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• In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. American's can be so prude sometimes.

  Erin Wasson

  America, Prudes, United States

  "Erin Wasson: Miss Start-of-Winter Pick-Me-Up". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2010.

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