Bad Things Quotes - Page 9

• I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Believe, Mean

  "Online Extra: Meet the Prosperity Preacher". Interview with William C. Symonds, www.bloomberg.com. May 23, 2005.

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• I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

  Joel Osteen

  Honest, Kind, Enough

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• I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Believe

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• I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

  Joe Nichols

  Believe, I Believe, Good Things

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Cities In The World, Talking

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, People, Appreciate

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• Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

  Michael Moore

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

  Moby

  Missing, Musician, Working Alone

  "Musician Moby". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, People, Trying

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• Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Goes On, Fame, Hours

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Stubborn, Selfishness

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• I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

  David Mamet

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Typewriters

  "Arianna's latest battle: taking on geek civilisation" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2005.

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• The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Mean, Two

  Interview with M.M. Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. October 22, 2001.

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• Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

  Willie Aames

  Use, Stubborn, Good Things

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• I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

  Adele

  Drama, Flip, Bits

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• I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Way, West

  "Queen Latifah: 'Joyful Noise' Role Brings Her Closer to God". Interview with Kelly Mahan, theboombox.com. January 4, 2012.

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• If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Saying Bad Things, Momma

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2010

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• I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Book, Divorce, Past

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• I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Facts, Priceless

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• The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

  Keith Ablow

  People, Evil, World

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• How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

  Susanna Clarke

  Men, Evil, Stupidity

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.80, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Made

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• I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Thinking, Keeping Promises, Break

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Lying, Two

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