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• Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reason, Hard

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.

  Chris Sarandon

  Disappointment, Thinking, People

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

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• Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons — for money, or for fame. I hope I won't ever do that. I don't feel at home in L.A., I feel like I'm on holiday. It's nice to dip your feet in occasionally, but I think it's probably quite unhealthy to spend too much time there at once.

  Andrew Garfield

  Nice, Home, Holiday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you'll be successful. If you start a business because you think you're going to make a lot of money at it, then you probably won't be successful, because that's the wrong reason to start a business. You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Work, Believe

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

  Frank Warren

  Thinking, Talking, Secret

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• There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.

  Gannicus

  Blessing, Men, Tests

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• I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'

  Jenny McCarthy

  Breakup, War, Thinking

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• People study martial arts for many reasons, sometimes all the wrong reasons. For example, I have had potential students come to my dojo with a belligerent and cocky attitude. When I ask why they want to study my art, their response has indicated to me that their goal is to learn to fight, which is the antithesis of the philosophy I hope to instill: I want them to know how to defend themselves if necessary, but to avoid fighting whenever possible because they will have nothing to prove by fighting.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Attitude, Philosophy

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• A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

  Glenn Tipton

  Band, Bucks, Reason

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• In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.

  John Allen Paulos

  Reason

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• I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Reason

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

  Saul

  People, Reason, Next Generation

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• People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

  Kellan Lutz

  Falling In Love, Kids, People

  "Kellan Lutz is a One-Woman Kind of Guy". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 16, 2012.

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• You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.

  Sienna Miller

  Girlfriend, Hype, Buzz

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• Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

  Jennifer Lee

  Passion, Heart, Reason

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• People always clap for the wrong reasons.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Rewards And Recognition, Reason

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

  Libba Bray

  Sorry, Mistake, People

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1216, Delacorte Press

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• Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.

  Michael Cera

  Choices, Being Real, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Guessing, Merit, Doe

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons - afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Angel, Men

  "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 13, archive.org. 1971.

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• There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

  Donita K. Paul

  Stars, Sky, Might

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonKnight: A Novel”, p.44, WaterBrook

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• So remember, if you're feeling bitter - or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished - or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.

  Ysabella Brave

  Sorry, Talking, Feelings

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

  John Frusciante

  Order, People, Sound

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• He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sweat, Reason, Courses

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.38, Penguin

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