Bad Quotes
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As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck - or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.
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Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.
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Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.
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I'm very detail-oriented, which is good and bad. Because I will wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something or seeing a mistake, thinking about it, and I immediately send an email - I'm very focused on details.
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English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
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I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
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Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.
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I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
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I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
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There is stuff going on inside me. But I have always been told to go out there and pitch like you can't tell if you just struck somebody out or just gave up a home run. If something bad happens, I don't dwell on it. Just give me the ball and let me pitch.
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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'
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So the big, bad, and able-to-mind-control angel thinks you’re his. As in ‘I don’t share my woman.
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Management always has a big influence on your success, no matter how good or how bad the business is itself.
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I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.
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As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
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When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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'What can I do to see Reality as it is?' The master smiled and said, 'I have good news and bad news for you, my friend.' 'What's the bad news?' 'There's nothing you can do to see - it is a gift.' 'And what's the good news?' 'There's nothing you can do to see - it is a gift.'
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But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.
