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People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?
Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don't shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the car he just bought, you don't go to the car manufacturer and say, 'Hey, we're shutting you down.'
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
Beowulf is not a superhero. He has a talent, very much like Clint Eastwood in 'Unforgiven.' He's very good at staying calm in the right moment, but he does bad things. It's very much about having talent in a tight spot.
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months.
If bad things happen to you as a kid, it's hard for you to succeed as an adult.
In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons and tons of people behind you - you have a whole crew of people working. But, an actor is the face of a film, so you get all of the good things, but you get the bad things, also.
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.
There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.
Video analysis is big for me. Through video, you see good things and bad things and can show players how to improve.
Philly ain't a good environment for you when you headed in a different direction. Bad things happen left and right. You might walk up the street, make a wrong turn, and your whole life could flip.
I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
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.
A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.
I haven't yet written a book in a far-future utopia, where all bad things are eliminated, but it would be fun to do that one day and introduce some subversion.
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.