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• I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Interesting, Attention

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• You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

  Russell Pearce

  Government, People, Defense

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• I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

  John Schlesinger

  Tongue, Has Beens, Cheeks

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• I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.

  John Barrowman

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Chaos, Human Experience

  On his work in government. Quoted in Scott Donaldson Archibald MacLeish (1992).

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• You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

  Stephen Fry

  Weather, Annoyed, Pissed Off

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Goal, Projects

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Competition, Magazines

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Love You, Mean

  Source: blues.gr

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

  Ratan Tata

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

  Bill Buckner

  Baseball, Average, Games

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• The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

  Richard Branson

  Past, Thinking, Albums

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

  Danielle Steel

  Believe, People, Literature

  "I'm going to be a lonely old woman if I'm not careful". Interview with Karen Angel, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 12, 2006.

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• I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen, we would already be in heaven. And we are not there. That's where trust and faith comes in. You just say, "Lord, I don't understand it. But one thing I do know is that you understand it and that you are in control and I trust you."

  Benjamin Carson

  Heaven, I Trust You, Lord

  "Dr. Ben Carson Extended Interview". "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. January 11, 2008.

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• I think that when you're 5'4" and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, Shopping, Trying

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• When I've acted, and it's not been something I've written or have had at least a hand in writing, I do think there is a controlling side of me that is frustrated by that. And I actually don't think that it's a bad thing, because if I'm going to be in movies, in large part they're going to be movies that I write.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

  Lana Del Rey

  Struggle, People, Example

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• When people don't comply, things - bad things will happen afterwards.

  Eric Bolling

  People, Happens

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

  Amy Poehler

  Awards, People, Up To You

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

  Gordon Livingston

  Determination, Children, Long

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• There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

  Ross Kemp

  Gang, Difficult, Worst

  Interview with Bertan Budak, uk.askmen.com.

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• It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

  Isak Dinesen

  Stories, Half, Tales

  Isak Dinesen (2002). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.337, Penguin UK

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