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• My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create a character that you think is funny. Some comedians get into bad habits when they are trying to create something that is not them, and they are trying to write a voice that isn't their true voice.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

  Justin Deeley

  Habit, Procrastinator

  "17 Questions With Justin Deeley". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.

  Al Jarreau

  Trying, Kind, Fit

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Giving Up, Habit, Satisfying

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• If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

  Rick Warren

  People, Addiction, Temptation

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• Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Sky, Serious

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• The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

  Daniel Coyle

  Energy, Building, Habit

  Daniel Coyle (2012). “The Little Book of Talent”, p.46, Random House

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• Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

  Val Kilmer

  Stars, Real, Believe

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

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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. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Thinking, Political

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

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• When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.

  Mila Kunis

  Fall, Acting, Four

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

  Rene Descartes

  Book, Good Book, Habit

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• The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.

  Mel Gibson

  Using People, Green, Habit

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Healthy Eating, Habit, Good Things

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II (2016). “The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health”, p.176, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Unhappy Childhood, Bored

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• People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

  John A. McDougall

  People, News, Habit

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• Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

  Michael Bennet

  Habit, Function, Senate

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• You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

  Champ Bailey

  Real, Way, Habit

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.

  Jeet Thayil

  Real, Drama, Addiction

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• With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Real, Mind

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• You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

  Scott Westerfeld

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

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• Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.

  Gilles Gratton

  Wall, Hockey, Past

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• There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.

  Doug Stanhope

  Law, Punishment, Vices

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• I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

  Eric Kripke

  Running, People, Killing

  "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

  Mason Cooley

  Faithful, Fickle, Literature

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• Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.

  Martin Zwilling

  Motivation, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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