Bad Things Quotes - Page 5

• Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mean, Way, Knows

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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• Saw myself naked in front of a mirror a couple days ago - that's not the joke, that's what we called the setup. I saw myself naked, and I said, 'Holy cow, I'm 'The White Man.' I've heard a lot of bad things about you, cracka.

  Daniel Tosh

  Couple, Men, Mirrors

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• The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

  Kate Winslet

  Change, People, Form

  "Perfecting the illusion" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, People, Evil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

  Brian Eno

  Mean, Ego, Risk

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

  Chris Pronger

  Worry, Sitting, Living My Life

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Writing

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• Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Iraq, United States

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end.

  Rafael Nadal

  Years, Play, Tennis

  Source: in.reuters.com

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• When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

  Monica Crowley

  Loyalty, President, Great Things

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I think that it's not a bad thing to not be too versed in the vocabulary of cinema, because you start to think that certain things are allowed and not allowed.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

  Steven Knight

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Who I Am, People, Ends

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Food, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebody you want that as much for them if not more than you do for yourself.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Mean, What Is Love, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.

  Abdellah Taia

  Dream, School, Writing

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

  Greg Brown

  Real, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Dangerous Situations, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

  Francis George

  Love Is, Justice, Way

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

  David Lloyd

  Strong, Government, Views

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• Bad things happen sometimes.

  Adam Ant

  Sometimes, Happens, Things Happen

  "You wouldn't know him from Adam" by Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2002.

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• I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.

  Scott Adams

  Karma, Believe, Mean

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in.

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, Couple, Fun

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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