Worst Things Quotes - Page 15

• As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, Worst

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.223, Seven Stories Press

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• I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

  Rutger Hauer

  Hate, Gun, Thinking

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• I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're never thin enough.

  Whitney Cummings

  Girl, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

  Roger Corman

  Trying, Film, Ends

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• Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

  Charles Evers

  Funny, Black, Welfare

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• I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Home, Night, Thinking

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• The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

  Jason Wu

  People, Steps, Honest

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Writing, People, Purpose

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Opportunity, Thinking, Optimism

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• The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really are, stripped of the illusions you use every day to divert yourself from the Yawning Maw of Futility. It's the wind that blows off the snow and reveals the stone.

  James Lileks

  Blow, Yawning, Wind

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• Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

  George Carlin

  Ironic, Individual, Good Things

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• The worst thing that can happen for people who don't want women to be strong is that we help each other and become a force.

  Sarah Silverman

  Strong, People, Want

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• Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Independence, Earth

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• The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them

  Mario Quintana

  Problem, Worst

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• Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Faces, Jason

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• When I was in high school the worst thing you could ever get was VD. Talk about the sniffles! I just want to meet an old-fashioned girl with gonorrhea.

  Bill Maher

  Girl, School, Gonorrhea

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• I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

  Bill Maher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

  Bob Kerrey

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, People, Community

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.

  Dustin Johnson

  Determined, Worst, I Can

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• One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

  Henry Cloud

  Worst, Dies

  Henry Cloud (2007). “9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life: A Psychologist Learns from His Patients What Really Works and What Doesn't”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Actors, Yeah, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

  John Irving

  Worst Case Scenario, Stories, Kind

  "Why novelist John Irving's latest protagonist is a fiction writer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2015.

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• The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.

  Carolyn Jones

  Honest, Guilty, Responsible

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

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• Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

  Paul Haggis

  Character, Worst, Happens

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