- Nov 07, 2020
Bad Quotes
Straight talk about the bad stretches.
These quotes cover a pitcher accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, a squad's uneasy feelings over uneven pay, and a nod to how poor choices tend to drive horror-film plots. For the flip side of tough moments, see Good.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020