Worst Quotes - Page 31

• Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

  John Frusciante

  Fate, Trying, Protect

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• That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Idols, People, Television

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• Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

  George Ayittey

  Leaving, Vapid, Naked

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Worst Enemy, Enemy

  Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”

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• Just know that someone out there always has it worst, and you should try to realize that there really is a lot to look forward to

  John O'Callaghan

  Trying, Looks, Realizing

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• The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

  Gene Mauch

  Winning, Player, Want

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• They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

  Josephine Hart

  Keys, Childhood, Soul

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.

  Tia Mowry

  Morning, Pregnancy, Nausea

  "Teen Actress Tia Mowry, Grown Up, Talks Motherhood". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Advertising, Internet

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• If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

  Anh Do

  Hot, Needs, Red

  Anh Do (2011). “The Happiest Refugee: The Extraordinary True Story of a Boy's Journey from Starvation at Sea to Becoming One of Australia's Best-loved Comedians”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Light, Worst Moments, Heavenly

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• What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

  Karen Kain

  Worst Enemy, Dancer, Age

  "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

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• The worst happens, and life still goes on.

  Alan Weisman

  Goes On, Stills, Happens

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• We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

  Arthur Laffer

  Recovery, East, West Coast

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• One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.

  Matthew Lesko

  Government, People, Boards

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• To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

  Pentti Linkola

  Evil, Movement, Green

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• I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

  John Carmack

  College, Thinking, Games

  "Violent Games Reduce Aggression, Says Id Boss". IndustryGamers Interview, www.digitalspy.com. July 31, 2011.

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• Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

  Kristina McMorris

  Loss, Doors, Quiet

  Kristina Mcmorris (2013). “The Pieces We Keep”, p.131, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Thinking, Agreement

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• Worst haircut I've ever seen in my life. And I've had a few bad
  ones. It looks like he (John Daly) has a divot over each ear.

  David Feherty

  Looks, Ears, Haircuts

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• The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

  Ben Hecht

  Writing, People, Intellectual

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• Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

  Elizabeth I

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• When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

  Bobby Knight

  Thinking, Coaching, Firsts

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• Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

  Felix Dennis

  Errors, Forget, Made

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.96, Penguin

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• Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

  Edwin Louis Cole

  World, Quitting, Failing

  Edwin Louis Cole (1993). “Real Man”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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