Quotes with bad-boy

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  • Benjamin Disraeli The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
    Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Tom Stoppard The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Nigel Farage The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation.
    (2011)
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Daniel Defoe The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • A. J. McLean The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Brian De Palma The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Brandon Cruz The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William James The difference between a good man and a bad is the choice of the cause.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • M. Beerbohm The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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  • George Orwell The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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