If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.
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EDIE FALCO If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very b... JIM LEE If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that me... DAVE BRAT As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another... SHARON SALZBERG What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have ... TRISTAN WILDS People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them. CHRIS COLFER If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. OSCAR WILDE God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. ... MARIANO RIVERA People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think abou... SIDNEY CROSBY It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have th... JANINA GAVANKAR There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good new... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's n... CARA BUONO There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolut... JAMES LOVELOCK There is no country in earth with all bad people or all good people, so you can't judge a country , ... "BETA" METANI' MARASHI I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people ... TAKERU KOBAYASHI Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven... JUSTIN BIEBER Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things... STEVEN WEINBERG People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter. IRENA SENDLER People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't l... CARL OLSON We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ... , "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992 You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels. SYLVIA BROWNE Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that... EMILY MORTIMER In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or ... JOHN RHYS-DAVIES I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidenta... HELEN MIRREN You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people d... LAINI TAYLOR If your house smells good, people perceive you as a good person. If there is a bad smell, people may... ALAN R. HIRSCH Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human. SUI ISHIDA The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous inte... MALCOLM MCDOWELL I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of ba... DEAN AMBROSE If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. ABRAHAM LINCOLN History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of p... C. S. LEWIS I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good peo... JAMES MCAVOY It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. OSCAR WILDE My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I... CHERYL HINES I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you ... BRIAN DIETZEN It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore... EDDY CUE Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're pre... AMY JO MARTIN People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities. MAHERSHALA ALI Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People wh... ADAM BEACH Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people. SONIA SOTOMAYOR When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it mea... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people�... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all rig... EUBIE BLAKE I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. PAUL WOLFOWITZ I thank to bad people. They help me identify good people. WOHI PURANA It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, real... VICTORIA STRAUSS In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take ... ANDREW BOGUT Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, B... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things. COLLEEN HOOVER We’re always taught that bad things happen to bad people and we believe that we’re somehow above... MATT ABRAMS You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking. THE WEEKND Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые. MIKHAIL BULGAKOV People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have comm... LEE GREENWOOD I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being... SAUL BELLOW There is no country in earth with all bad people or all good people, so you can't judge a country or... "BETA" METANI' MARASHI I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And i... ANTONIN SCALIA The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just ... DEAN KOONTZ You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted peo... TOM HIDDLESTON Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi... AMY BLOOM Bad in good and good in bad, see the life you could have had? Your life is the keyhole, and you are ... CHRIS DISANO DAVENPORT I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the medi... J. A. KONRATH If you want to help someone move on, you don’t label people as good, bad, worst or best. This cate... SHANNON L. ALDER Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien... TAYLOR SHERIDAN In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. BRUCE BARTON As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being... JOHN LEGEND People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head. MAISIE WILLIAMS If you have people depending on agriculture, and there is a drought, you know that they will be in v... MAMADOU BARO I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies. BRIE LARSON Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people... REBECCA HALL Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it j... LAINI TAYLOR You got good and bad people everywhere. SUGE KNIGHT New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to pe... ERIK GRIFFIN Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department ... JACK MA With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have t... JOSH FOX You that have said and done consciously or unconsciously good and bad things that you have to people... GIOVANNI COLLAZO You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are ... MICHAEL STEELE We need bad people, To be good people HADI NOURALLAH Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attit... PRINCE CHARLES You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step asid... TOBA BETA Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren'... JOHN KEEGAN
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