Quotes with bad-boy

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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Margaret Thatcher If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Oscar Wilde If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Willis If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Les Brown If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Amy Winehouse If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
    Amy Winehouse
    English singer and songwriter (1983 - 2011)
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  • Barbara Castle If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Erica Jong In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Billy Beane In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Watson In order to win in this league, you have to have a quarterback who can make all the throws, who makes great decisions, somebody who can get you out of bad situations, that just gives you a chance.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bram Cohen In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Douglas Adams In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Lord Chesterfield In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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