Bad Apple Quotes

• Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Apples, Annoyed, Idiot

  "The Seattle Massacre : The Ripper Case Series". Book by J. J. Knight (p. vii), 2011.

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• There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

  Charles de Lint

  Religious, Mistake, Apples

  Charles de Lint (2009). “Muse and Reverie: A Newford Collection”, p.147, Macmillan

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• If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Apples, Situation, Social Psychology

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• a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Apples, Reason, Orchard

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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  You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Apples, Evil, Rotten

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• If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

  Leon Brown

  Apples, Appreciate, Ifs

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• As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

  Rick Danko

  Dream, Cutting, Apples

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• Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Apples, Fruit, Swear

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• It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

  Mos Def

  Apples, Grandfather, Movement

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• Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mean, Opportunity, Apples

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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• It's a lot harder to keep your cool than it is to lose it. That's on any work ethic. Even if you're a big producer on a movie set, or whatever, it's a lot harder to be a pro than be a baby on your crew. That's one work ethic to keep in mind, as one bad apple could give five people a bad day, when that one person could've stepped up their own efforts a little more and not bring anyone else down.

  Hank Williams III

  Baby, Bad Day, Apples

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• Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Apples, People, Groups

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

  Ben Stein

  Wall, Writing, Years

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Certainly, you may have been hurt beofre in love, but just because you get one bad apple doesn't mean they are all bad - and you can learn from the difficult ones.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Yoga, Mean

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• I think there's always bad apples [in police], and I've seen things that I don't like. But we have to bring back law and order. You have policemen now that are afraid to talk to anybody because they don't want to lose their job.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.economist.com

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• A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

  Sam Snead

  Games, Iron, Apples

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• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Healing, Issues

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• Without getting into brothels, there are ethical capitalists the problem is that there aren't enough of them. It is not "just a few bad apples" that have been evident in our corporations, our investment bankers and our mutual funds, but so many that one has to concede that the barrel itself needs some work.

  John C. Bogle

  Problem, Mutual Fund, Investment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.

  Nick Turse

  Mistake, Boys, Apples

  Nick Turse (2013). “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”, p.256, Macmillan

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• From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, theres going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Fun, Apples, People

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• Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

  Dar Williams

  Heart, Rivers, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

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• The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

  Oren Moverman

  Men, Views, Apples

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