#bad thing

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing. ↗

— David Lloyd

#bad thing #because #conservative #go #governments

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#bad thing #been #cheek #felt #i

Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose. ↗

— David Gallagher

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I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#bad thing #both #business #could #family

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing. ↗

— John Sununu

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I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it. ↗

— Caroline Corr

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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing. ↗

— Sally Field

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Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. ↗

— Meg White

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