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Bad Stuff Quotes
On mistakes, imperfection, and trying to do better.
These quotes take an honest look at 'bad stuff,' from admitting to doing bad things without always acting on them to the reminder that history has been 'one pile of bad stuff after another,' alongside real progress in law and knowledge. Readers may also like our Better quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that? That's a badge of honor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To develop your own voice, you have to keep writing a ton, and this is something where I think Twitter is helpful. I use it to write a ton of jokes. You have to write a ton of bad stuff before you know what you're good at. And that's what some people I think have trouble with, the thought of getting past the bad stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
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I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.
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Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
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- Nov 07, 2020