Bad Things Quotes - Page 35

• The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, People, Horror

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• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Risk, Illusion, Randomness

  "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012.

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• Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Thinking, Government, Long

  "President Museveni Says Long Ruling Good for Africa" by Tabu Butagira, www.thecitizen.co.tz. February 20, 2012.

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• Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

  Richard Stallman

  Globalization, Good Things

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• I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.

  Harriet Harman

  Running, Men, Thinking

  The Times, August 02, 2009.

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• I've done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles.

  John S. Hall

  Done, Pickles, Good Things

  "Song: "Ennui" ("The Psychopathology of Everyday Life")". January 21, 2003.

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• Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

  Quinn Cummings

  Children, School, Together

  "The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling". Book by Quinn Cummings, 2012.

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• When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.

  Joe Satriani

  Guitar, Years, Long

  RIP magazine, June 1994.

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• Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.

  Jesse Ventura

  Girl, Running, Law

  Interview in "Playboy", November 1999.

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• The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

  Natalie Massenet

  Opportunity, Thinking, Luck

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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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• The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

  Tom Bodett

  Thinking, Media, People

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• I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.

  Palmer Luckey

  Real, Communication, Technology

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

  Ray Dalio

  Doors, Way, Reason

  "Ray Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood". Interview with Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2016.

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• Every organization does good and bad things.

  Andrew Solomon

  Organization, Doe, Good And Bad

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be sure nine of them play in a band! The bad thing is there is no underground movement here anymore. Going to a show with local band's ten years ago would mean at least 300 people, now you can be lucky if 50 shows up!

  Johan Hegg

  Mean, Years, Play

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• A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

  Tom McClintock

  Government, Panic, Damage

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• Sure, there are many bad things that can happen. Yet you can be aware of them, and realistic about them, without being obsessed and consumed by them.

  Ralph Marston

  Realistic, Obsessed, Happens

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• I think when you experience things in your life, dealing with good and bad things, you just become stronger in so many ways.

  Britney Spears

  Thinking, Stronger, Way

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• I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

  Joni Mitchell

  Passion

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• Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Want, Stereotype

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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