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• For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

  Walton Goggins

  People, Vulnerable, Violent

  Source: collider.com

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• Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

  Mary Harron

  Commitment, Years, Aftermath

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

  Jacob Braude

  Eye, Lines, Littles

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• Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Men, Hands

  "Meet the Press" Interview, May 18, 1997.

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• Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.

  Amadeo Giannini

  Trouble

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• To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

  David Twohy

  Come Up

  "David Twohy Talks the Evolution of the Franchise, Returning to R-Rated Territory, Going to Underverse in Further Sequels, and More on the Set of RIDDICK". Group Interview on the Set, collider.com. June 18, 2013.

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• Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

  Rory Miller

  Rules Of Life, Happens, Picks

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• I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Trying, Care

  "The Biggest Secret to Life (and Work)" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2017.

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• Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

  Pharrell Williams

  Disappointment, Smart, Eye

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Essence, Parent, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the problems with the scientific worldview is that it leads human beings to have an overwhelmingly theoretical relationship to the world. For example, I no longer accept my being in the world practically and then try to describe that or elucidate that; rather, I see the world theoretically as colors and objects and representations which are fed through my retina into the brain.

  Simon Critchley

  Color, Brain, Trying

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.

  Amy Tan

  Giving Up, Book, Don't Give Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

  Richard Gere

  Lying, Reason, Benign

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Every bad thing starts from creation.

  Wu Shanzhuan

  Creation

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

  David D. Burns

  Sometimes, Humans, Persons

  Source: time.com

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• Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

  Joe Torre

  Years, Numbers, Attention

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• It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Want, Good Things

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• The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

  Joe Biden

  Focus, Forget, Ability

  "Joe Biden in Winter" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. March/April 2014.

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• My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

  Seal

  Communication, Compassion, Overwhelming Desire

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• If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, Miracle, Alive

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• Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.

  Sarah Kay

  Eye, Shining, Done

  "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.

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• I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Stress, Good Things, Approach

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.26, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

  Edwin Catmull

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

  John Green

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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• In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  People, Trying, England

  "He's not a god - he's human". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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