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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible. — Larry David
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever… — Angela Davis
I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible… — Jim DeMint
When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance. — Alan Dershowitz
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and… — Alan Dershowitz
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. — Alan Dershowitz
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. — Zooey Deschanel
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible… — Junot Diaz
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. — Junot Diaz
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing. — Junot Diaz
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. — Kirk Douglas
I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People… — Kirk Douglas
When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. — Robert Downey, Jr.
With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on… — Robert Downey, Jr.
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. — Bob Dylan
I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have… — Sheena Easton
A film is a terrible thing to waste. — Roger Ebert
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy.… — Roger Ebert
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Umberto Eco
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people. — Eminem
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future. — Brian Eno
My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible. — Kevin Eubanks

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