Bad Things Quotes - Page 22

• For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

  Raquel Welch

  Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

  David Allen

  Decision, Doe, May

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Important, Benefits

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• Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

  James Dickey

  Occupation, May, Poetry Is

  James Dickey, Ronald Baughman (1989). “The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• I'm living the life I always dreamed of living. From the time I was a youngster I wanted to be a celebrity. It's a great life. The only bad thing is that people are more interested in your personal life than they are in your work and it's freaky

  Jennifer Lopez

  Live Life, People, Freaky

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• Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Infinite, Capacity

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• Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Beach, Erosion, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we have a great relationship with Russia and other countries, and if we go after ISIS together, which has to be stopped - that's an evil that has to be stopped - I will consider that a good thing, not a bad thing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Russia, Isis

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

  Joe Hill

  Children, Believe, Differences

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• What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

  Milton Friedman

  Differences, People, Why Not

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• It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

  Joanna Macy

  Fall, Emotional, Shells

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• If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.

  Maxine Waters

  Crazy, Stupid, People

  "Was It a 'Riot,' a 'Disturbance' or a 'Rebellion'?" by Swati Pandey, www.latimes.com. April 29, 2007.

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• Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it happen to us. It is really freedom, an entry into another, higher life. We must utilize this life in order to realize the life beyond this one. Beyond this earth garden is the infinite land wherein we meet those whom we have thought lost. Although we must not seek death, when it comes we should know that it is the final examination for a great reward.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Death, Garden

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• I don't say that I won't do nudity for other people's benefit. It has nothing to do with other people's, it's just what I'm comfortable with. I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

  Cameron Diaz

  Nice, Thinking, People

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  You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

  Bette Davis

  Should

  "Farewell Falwell" by Tim Footman, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2007.

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• In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

  Craig Kilborn

  Boston, Years, Massachusetts

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• Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

  Shelby Foote

  War, Hell, Crossroads

  Shelby Foote (1995). “The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863”

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• Bad things happen, but you can still live.

  Joel Courtney

  When Bad Things Happen, Stills, Happens

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• Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  People, Want, Opinion

  "Lupita Nyong'o, Elle Fanning, And More Cover 'Marie Claire'" by Marissa G. Muller, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2014.

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• Too much thinking is a bad thing sometimes.

  Phil Simms

  Thinking, Too Much, Sometimes

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• Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

  Padgett Powell

  Alcohol, Ends, Cholesterol

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• Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

  Ben Okri

  Grief, Miracle, Suffering

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• If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

  Angela Carter

  Able, Barbarians, Blame

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