Bad Situations Quotes - Page 2

• We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

  Joe Manganiello

  Lying, Phones, Nasty

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people are super weird, so I like to write characters that get addicted to things, lose their minds, hurt others, put themselves in bad situations. I'm just more interested in that.

  Leslye Headland

  Hurt, Character, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

  Oliver Stone

  Scary, Done, Way

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• People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.

  Amanda Ripley

  Military, Destiny, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

  Chris Tucker

  Hurt, Character, London

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• Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Cutting, Cards, Credit

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• I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

  David Weber

  Class, Enough, Situation

  David Weber (2011). “A Beautiful Friendship”, p.172, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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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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• I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

  Deb Caletti

  Water, People, Abuse

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

  Lee Ann Womack

  World, Lessons, I've Learned

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• Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

  Russell Simmons

  Art, Way, Express Yourself

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• I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

  Raven-Symone

  Growing Up, Parent, Ends

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• James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

  Billy Corgan

  Band, World, Pubs

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• People do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn't mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture.

  Master P

  Thinking, People, Feel Good

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• I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it's general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Relax, Never Quit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

  Branch Rickey

  Ability, Situation

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• Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

  Harvey Mackay

  Sometimes, Situation, Exploring

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• Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

  Jean Kerr

  Creating, People, Talent

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.76, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life.

  Emma Stone

  Situation, Anything In Life, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

  Mary J. Blige

  Believe, Use, Certain

  "Mary J. Blige beats high odds". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head — like it’s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I’m going to be tough. It’s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

  Tina Fey

  Mean, People, Captivity

  "Tina Fey: Funny Girl". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.rd.com.

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• I grew up upper-class. Private school, my dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dad, School, Class

  "Beyonce goes jet skiing in a floor length dress as she sparks feud with the Jackson family". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2009.

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• At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Bullying, Teaching

  "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thinking, People, Evil

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