Top 67 Quotes About Doing Something Bad
#1. That said, it was pretty awkward and a weird thing to shoot. Some women had a sense of humour about it and we'd laugh, but some were very serious and suspicious ... like I might be doing something bad, or maybe they were just uncomfortable.
Nicole Holofcener
#2. Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad
Jeanne DuPrau
#3. It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
Tullian Tchividjian
#4. The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
Mark Dacascos
#5. The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.
Ronald Coase
#6. Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.
Charlie Munger
#8. I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.
Ray Liotta
#9. Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
Julie Payette
#10. He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.
Holly Black
#11. We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal and harmless, do it. When we're actually involved with doing something that is recreational, don't find ways to feel bad. Let go and enjoy life.
Melody Beattie
#12. We all have regrets,' Leo said, taking a sip of brandy, letting the velvet fire slide down his throat. 'It's why I cling to my bad habits. One doesn't have to start regretting something unless one stops doing it.
Lisa Kleypas
#13. In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that the more people were thinking about something other than what they were doing, the less happy they felt. Even when they weren't thinking about anything particularly bad.
Sophia Dembling
#14. I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
Yasmine Bleeth
#15. I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.
Josh Brolin
#16. My temper began to rise
always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid.
Jasper Fforde
#17. It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.
Kenny Loggins
#18. Sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse.
Melanie R. Anderson
#19. If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you'll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off.
Seth Godin
#20. People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It's boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you're a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.
Mark Sutton
#21. Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betraying people's trust.
Ron Suskind
#22. I'm glad the UFC wanted to work with me as well, and I think that they trust that I'll never make them look bad. You never have to worry about me with a DWI or doing something crazy
Jon Jones
#23. There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.
Tom Hooper
#24. When we're good, we're really good, and when we're bad, it's really bad. Two people that have that much passion must be doing something awfully right.
Magan Vernon
#25. You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.
Jayson Blair
#26. What happened?" Buc asked him. "I told her the truth about something," Ga answered. "You've got to stop doing that," Buc said. "It's bad for people's health.
Adam Johnson
#27. As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.
Justin Chon
#28. Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before.
Joe Vitale
#29. One good and bad thing about New York is there's so much exciting stuff and so many people doing something interesting. I actually find in New York that you become more careerist and more focused on what's the newest, hippest thing.
Mike Mills
#30. Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
Andrew Garfield
#31. There's a difference between being good and doing bad things. Sometimes, a person does something because he doesn't have a choice. He might not like what he did ... but it doesn't make him bad.
Lorraine Heath
#32. We're generally quite good at doing something, but we're really bad at doing nothing.
John Ortberg
#33. Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
Mark Hoppus
#34. I gotta say this," Scott says as the guy is sitting on his new bike, getting his swords adjusted, doing something incredibly unauthorized to the bios, "you look like one bad motherfucker.
Neal Stephenson
#35. Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?
Jodi Picoult
#36. I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.
Andy Samberg
#37. Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
Harold Prince
#38. The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things
they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.
Slavoj Zizek
#39. Do you think I could keep bees one day?" I asked. August said, "Didn't you tell me this past week one of the things you loved was bees and honey? Now, if that's so, you'll be a fine beekeeper. Actually, you can be bad at something, Lily, but if you love doing it, that will be enough." The
Sue Monk Kidd
#40. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.
Paula Hawkins
#41. I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work ... It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.
Matthew Perry
#42. I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.
Henry Rollins
#43. I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.
Elton John
#44. I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?
Louis C.K.
#45. Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
Robert Frost
#46. I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing ... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
Callan McAuliffe
#47. Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.
Greta Gerwig
#48. A bunch of unearned trophies around the house would make me hooked on awards, which is bad in general, but especially bad if you don't deserve them. The whole experience made me want to win another trophy, but win it for actually doing something great.
Mindy Kaling
#49. When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
Chad Kroeger
#50. I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.
Sylvester Stallone
#51. When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.
Michael Phelps
#52. History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
C.S. Lewis
#53. If you want something bad enough, and you're having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way.
Nick Goepper
#54. So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Craig Groeschel
#55. That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing.
Paul Reiser
#56. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.
Randy Pausch
#57. Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.
Tony Robbins
#58. Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
Jason Alexander
#59. Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
John Mellencamp
#60. All too often the people of our culture think they're really doing something if they're out there fighting bad things and getting laws passed. Just look at what we've accomplished by outlawing drugs and waging a trillion-dollar War on Drugs! (Nothing!)
Daniel Quinn
#61. Sometimes all our plans for life go to shit. You end up doing something you never dreamed of and you know what you do? You make the best out of it you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it.
Nichole Chase
#62. Something went wrong a few years ago and I knew it was a bad thing but I didn't know it was bad for me. I thought it just happened and then I was going to get over it. But things keep falling down inside me. I'm sick with it. I keep doing things.
Stephen King
#63. Actually, you can be bad at something ... but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
Sue Monk Kidd
#64. You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!
Garrison Wynn
#65. For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.
Pink
#66. What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the presence of people actually listening to my music. Feeding my soul is what touring feels like for me and I absolutely refuse to have a bad time doing something I really, really love.
Christina Perri
#67. any one of us can draw the bad card of an aggressive cancer. Good people - doing all the right things - still get sick. It's tempting to want to find something - or someone - to blame.
H. Gilbert Welch
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