Wrong Things Quotes - Page 7

• Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

  Muhammad Ali

  News, Ifs

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

  Ice T

  Rap, Trouble, Streets

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• I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

  Akeem Ayers

  Kids, People, Saws

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• I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

  Ethan Hawke

  Children, Growing Up, Heart

  Source: collider.com

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• People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.

  Michael Lewis

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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• There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wall, Thinking, Doe

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• You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.

  Ian McLeod

  Believe, People, Trying

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

  Joshua Harris

  Wrong Time, Right Thing

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.80, Multnomah

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• Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

  William McDonough

  Business, Mean, Effectiveness

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

  Kevin Gates

  Detours, Poverty, Environment

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• All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.

  George Carlin

  Long, People, Drug

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• Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.

  David Alan Basche

  Nuts, Land, Tvs

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• Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.

  Gus Van Sant

  Character, Cutting, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Drug, Wow

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

  Phil McGraw

  Years, People, One Day

  "Dr. Phil: Oprah Is 'The Gold Standard In TV'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

  Rachel Cohn

  Believe, Reading, Meaning Well

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Heart, Scams, Punters

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• Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Agony, People, Effort

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• Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

  Les Parrott

  Betrayal, Backstabbers, Wrong Person

  Les Parrott (1996). “High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People”, Tyndale House Pub

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• When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

  Jayson Blair

  People, Stories, Want

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• What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Survival, Ingredients

  The Rolling Stone, January 2003.

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• Music was not always my fan. Sometimes there were lean years, years where I was uncertain if I was doing the right or wrong thing. And years where there wasn't the acceptance, years of economic hardships, and failures. That's when you get to know either who you are, what you're made of, or what's inside of you. If you don't probe deeper, you'll never know, and you can't go on.

  Gino Vannelli

  Acceptance, Years, Goes On

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• People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking about how am I forgiving my enemies? How am I turning the other cheek? How am I loving my neighbor as myself? To me that's 10,000 times more difficult than to say should priests be married or not be married? I'm, like, I think we're wasting all out energies on the wrong thing. Let's work on the most difficult stuff.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

  Kathy Sierra

  Easy, Hard, Right Thing

  Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates (2015). “Badass: Making Users Awesome”, p.232, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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