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“Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell’s character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.”

People Want Humans Wells Character Levels Quality Worst Office Versions Decent Sitcom Human Qualities Latches

Author:Steve Carell

“We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.”

People World Way Kind Real Shows Would Be Wanted Found Energy Worst Scared Access Bars Fascinating Unusual Dedicated Worthwhile Location Time And Energy Neighbourhoods

Author:Ben Affleck

“The boring people are the worst. I think it's obvious, I think people have always had phobias about flying for years even before 9/11 and everything like that. It just taps into that and it taps into who you are going to sit next to on the plane.”

People Thinking Years Next Worst Who You Are Obvious Boring Flying Planes Phobia

Author:Cillian Murphy

“The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.”

People Two Enough Evil Worst Good Enough Not Good Enough Two Evils Lesser Of Two Evils

Author:Ralph Nader

“I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.”

Firsts Jobs Night Next Four Worst Quitting Restaurants Thieves Next Day I Quit Dens Janitor

Author:Wendell Pierce

“A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.”

People Actors Worst Musician

Author:Paul Rudd

“Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.”

Knows Lying Acting Worst Liars Truthful Being Truthful

Author:Dane DeHaan

“I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.”

Ifs Stills Care Actors Father Worst Adults Don't Care I Don't Care Movie Categories Stigma Geese Liver Chopped Liver

Author:Jack Valenti

“Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.”

People Persons Doe Wise Worst Buddhist Virtuous Associates Wise Person

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.”

Worst Ultimate Stress Good Things Worst Things Demise Downtime Stressors

Author:Dianna Agron

“I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Lying Nice Worst Worst Things Credence

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.”

Feels I Can Feelings Past Film Given Ability Our Lives Worst Style Stones Get Away Prisoner Locked

Author:Oliver Stone

“Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.”

Writing Ideas Stories Worst Plagiarism

Author:Charles Stross

“There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.”

Humans Stills States Happens America Political United United States Democracy Land Worst Adventure Development Europe Incredibles Extremes Myth Experiments Despite

Author:Bruno Dumont

“If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow.”

Ifs Sometimes Happens Would Be Grows Successful Worst Best Things Being The Best Worst Things

Author:Erin Davie

“I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.”

Men Struggle Alive Worst Produce Crisis Manage Filmmaker Productive Melancholy Pauses

Author:Jørgen Leth

“I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression not one public library closed their doors.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Culture Doors Worst Institutions Library American Culture Mcdonalds Most Amazing Public Library

Author:David McCullough

“I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.”

Ifs I Can Worst Circumstances Okay Awful Girlfriend My Girlfriend Mercury Pms Retrograde

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.”

People Jobs Can Do Decision Rooms Worst Areas Agree Finance Engineering Worst Things Advise Making Decisions

Author:Roger Ailes

“I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.”

Ifs Thinking Made Courses Decision Worst Made It Wrong Decision

Author:Roger Ailes

“I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.”

Ifs Mean Persons President Interesting Failing Worst Picks Flaws Ranking Great Presidents Interesting Life

Author:David McCullough

“To be a true fashionista, you have to be on the best-dressed list and worst-dressed list.”

Worst Lists Fashionista Best Dressed

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“The worst pain in the world is shame.”

World Pain Worst Shame

Author:Fiona Apple

“The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.”

Reason Pay Worst Drinkers

Author:Joe Manganiello

“In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.”

Thinking Wells Country Home School Culture Girl Water Worst Educated Developing Meals Treatment Village Preparing Farming Back And Forth Chores Developing Countries Country Girl

Author:Laura Bush

“When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.”

People Loses Worst Frank Worst Things Wayne Many Friends Lancaster

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.”

Knows Soul Certain Enemy Doors Worst Rage Pounds Gates Scream Consent Howl

Book:Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction

Source: Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction

“Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.”

Ifs Sometimes Eye Pain Suffering Born Worst Filled Pain And Suffering Worst Day

Author:Mother Angelica

“Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.”

Moral Enemy Worst Truth Is Worst Enemy

Author:George Weigel

“I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.”

Felt Worst Clinton 1960s

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.”

Feels Wells Brain Worst Stupid Boring Awful Bored Resigned Worst Day

Book:Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.”

Ifs Stories Hands Worst Beats

Author:Chuck Thompson

“The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy”

Thinking Firsts Happens Easy Worst Trade Investing Making Money Investors Worst Things

Author:Mark Skousen

“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”

Form Worst Perversion Abstinence

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.”

Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition

“...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”

Men Firsts Lasts Worst Lows Angel Curiosity Grades Sarcasm Sincerity Marvelous Unspeakable Unimaginable Nickels Firsts And Lasts

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.”

Happens Faces Grows Situation Worst Circumstances

Book:Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

“When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.”

Ifs Way Would Be Laughing Worst Students Loud Unworthy Laugh Out Loud

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.”

People Knows Made Deals Mistake Worst Subjects Objects Definitions Following Experts

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.”

Ifs Humans Reason Done Body Today Guy Dies Courses Worst Design Ears Wake Up Died Noise Flaws Lions Truck Human Body Absolutely Nothing

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an implement to perform political or rather business services for them.”

Ends Enough Political Religious Worst Conviction Wretched Misuse Devastation Crooks

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."”

World Writing Attitude Worst Expectations Junk Freeze Expectations Of Yourself

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.”

Thinking Looks Ideas Different Worst Ugly Different Ideas

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.”

Mistake Worst Wall Ladders

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“One of the worst things that can happen to a man is for him to work and study hard in order to benefit others and make his own name and then be prevented by sickness, or perhaps death itself, from finally completing what he has begun”

Men Hard Happens Order Names Study Worst Benefits Sickness Worst Things Completing

Book:Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

Source: Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

“Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.”

Kind Christian Remember Political Purpose Goal Religious Worst Protect Thee Israeli Fanaticism

Author:Ameen Rihani

“In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

People Thinking Needs Ideas Country Moments Facts Body Faces Given Dark Accepting Enemy Worst Intellectual Journalist Officials Cowardice Orthodoxy Bans Worst Enemy

Author:George Orwell

“The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.”

Feels Worst Honest Concern Responsible Guilty Best Things Worst Things

Author:Carolyn Jones

“I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.”

White Race Wonder Worst Members Vets White Race

Book:Sunset Limited

Source: Sunset Limited

“No one should be judged by the worst moment of his life.”

Should Moments Worst Judged Worst Moments

Book:In the Name of Honour

Source: In the Name of Honour

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