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• Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Sitting, Done, Records

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• If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.

  Zach Braff

  Global Warming, Killing, Mankind

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• People are always saying bad things about them, but really they think they're just trying to clean up our planet. I'm not saying it's right but, you know, we could all benefit from following that example.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

  Julian Cope

  Thinking, Sick, Childhood

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  No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Busy, Too Busy

  Twitter post from May 15, 2013

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• Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

  Miguel Torres

  Art, Jobs, Mma

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• Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

  LaToya Jackson

  Stay Strong, Book, Pages

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• I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Mother, Weed, Marijuana

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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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• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  Plato

  Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

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• The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Differences, Challenges

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• I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

  George Clooney

  Gay, Being Gay, Seems

  "George Clooney engaged? Retiring the playboy act is his best move in years" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2014.

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• Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

  N. T. Wright

  Christmas, Light, Rooms

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

  Steve Case

  Innovation, Trying, Stuff

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Elephants, Sick

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• When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

  Billy Graham

  Blessed, Life Is Hard, Focus

  "Can God Help Me Be Thankful?" by Billy Graham, www.arcamax.com. November 28, 2013.

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• Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

  Ransom Riggs

  Mean, Laughing, Care

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.285, Quirk Books

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• Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

  Leila Aboulela

  Light, Practice, Giving

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• It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

  Sharon Olds

  Appreciate, World, Might

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• Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Surveillance State, Talking

  "Ex-CIA Worker Edward Snowden Says He Leaked Surveillance Data" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. June 10, 2013.

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• The fact is, these are actors playing parts, and maybe it's not such a bad thing that people be reminded of that. Both of these actors gave heart and soul to the Twilight movies, not only during shooting, but also by navigating so graciously the whole life-in-a-fishbowl aspect of the phenomenon. Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it's time that some of that respect be returned to them.

  Bill Condon

  Twilight, Heart, People

  "This Week's Cover: 'Twilight' Exclusive -- Director Bill Condon on the scandal. Plus: Fall movie preview!", www.ew.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, People, Healthy

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• Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Adults

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• I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

  Young Jeezy

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Book, Gun, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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