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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same… — Billy Joel
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went… — Willie Nelson
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over… — William Wordsworth
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human… — Henry Ward Beecher
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. — Minna Antrim
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. — F. H. Bradley
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is… — Mark Twain
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! — Doris Lessing
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. — George Bernard Shaw
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad… — George Bernard Shaw
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. — Bertrand Russell
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined… — William Penn
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad… — Florence King
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose… — Alexander Hamilton
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had… — Lewis H. Lapham
I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. — William Shakespeare
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets. — Vladimir Lenin
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. — Peter Drucker
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man… — Jean Rostand

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