Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.
Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.
I didn't say you were a bad person. I just don't like being a foregone conclusion for the sole reason of having a vagina." - Abby Abernathy
And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.
Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.
I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.
Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
