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In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even ...

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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordina...

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good servic...

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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...

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Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and ter...

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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure ...

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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a ba...

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, ...

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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Oscar WildeThe Complete Fairy Tales

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not...

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Everything’s bad, until you find something worse.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as ba...

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It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

Have I said anything I started out to say about being good? God, I don’t know. A stranger is shot in...

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When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dan...

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My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fest...

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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are ...

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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad gir...

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It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like ...

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Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master u...

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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing com...

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Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all...

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It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance...

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It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad dea...

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Falling isn’t so bad, you know. It’s only the landing that hurts.

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed.""That's because you're basically goo...

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Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. B...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a ...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or la...

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Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring o...

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William McDonoughCradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thoug...

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Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and...

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I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to m...

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Alan MooreBatman: The Killing Joke

I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to m...

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Alan MooreBatman: The Killing Joke

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...

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Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...

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Anne RiceBeauty's Punishment

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

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Anne RiceThe Queen of the Damned

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first c...

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Bad men are full of repentance.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, b...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

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There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...

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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you l...

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I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be...

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I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you kn...

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In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in a...

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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste...

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Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

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Craig GroeschelDare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if someti...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and...

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the worst happens when you least expect it

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian o...

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I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of...

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When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, ...

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What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can...

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I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up her...

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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr...

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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or...

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O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it ...

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EuripidesMedea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.