Bad Quotes
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Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.
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My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'
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I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
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I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
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I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
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It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
