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• I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.

  Bryan Cranston

  Ideas, Let It Go, Suggestions

  "Bryan Cranston Talks about His Thoughts on the Script, the Appeal of a Character-Driven Blockbuster, and More on the Set of GODZILLA". collider.com. March 19, 2014.

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• The two critical questions to ask are: "Who is my customer?" and "What value am I adding?" Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.

  Bill Capodagli

  Two, Answers, Habit

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.

  Edward Thomson

  Heart, Men, Wicked

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• Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

  Roshon Fegan

  People, Hip Hop, Hips

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• If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

  Dan Gable

  Attitude, Progress, Laziness

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Drug, Boring

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• It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

  Evelyn E. Smith

  Habit, Break, Easier

  Evelyn E. Smith (1989). “Miss Melville's Revenge”

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• Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

  Kate Beaton

  Morning, Home, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have a high ceiling. We're still young. We're still learning coach's system and we're still learning how to play hard every night. I think that's been a bad habit of ours the last few years. It's a habit that's hard to shake, too. I think if we keep pushing, we'll be alright this season.

  Andrew Bogut

  Sports, Night, Thinking

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• Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

  Dan Simmons

  Law, Being Ignored, Habit

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.422, Spectra

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• Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

  Conor Oberst

  Beautiful, Doctors, Looks

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• I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.

  Yukio Mishima

  Revenge, Stupid, Fate

  "Confessions of a Mask". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1949.

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• Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

  Bret Harte

  Arsenic, Sticks, Habit

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.82, VM eBooks

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• Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Book, Reading, Guessing

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• Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do before and to learn what we failed to learn before. Thank God for eternity! We've all probably got a lot of bad habits to change and failures to make up for. Maybe God will give each of us a chance to meet people who we've wronged and straighten things out and tell them we're sorry.

  David Berg

  Sorry, People, Giving

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• If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

  Rebel Wilson

  Two, Lines, Littles

  "Q&A: Rebel Wilson". Interview with Arylene Westlake, www.perthnow.com.au. January 28, 2012.

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• Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

  Sharon Horgan

  Thinking, Long, People

  "This much I know". Interview With Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

  George Orwell

  Clarity, Trouble, Imitation

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.

  Celia Thaxter

  Animal, Garden, Toads

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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• Looking beautiful isnt just about what you apply on your face. Its the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I dont drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Beautiful, Exercise, Healthy Habits

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