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. – George Washington
Sequestration, sequestation – however you pronounce that word – and gridlock aren’t all that bad. – Nelson Peltz
I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. – Dick Cavett
I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn’t done the Stand. – Corin Nemec
In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there’s no gray area at all. – David Baldacci
Sometimes a little compromise isn’t a bad thing. You don’t need to be precious about it. – David Sylvian
If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I’m so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it. – David Chang
No poetry that I’m aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. – Felix Dennis
If it’s a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score. – Marco Beltrami
Terms like ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation. – David Icke
In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct? – David Petraeus
I had my shortcomings – crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all. – David Boreanaz
I don’t have too many bad days because I just don’t let them happen. When I’m having one of those days, I’ll just be like. ‘I’m not going to let this be a bad day,’ and I’ll do everything I can to turn it around. – Matt Dallas
It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that. – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. – Eric Ries
There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they’re being badly directed or the material isn’t good enough. – Mike Leigh
It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don’t read anymore. – Eddy Cue