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Single guys get a bad rap. -- David Spade
I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap. -- Sandra Bullock
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should. -- Richard Dreyfuss
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct. -- Larry Page
Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works. -- Matthew Lesko
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan. -- Eddie Trunk
Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. -- Noel Gallagher
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap. -- Eugenie Clark
Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page. -- Justin Rosenstein
Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves. -- Lindsay Lohan
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity. -- Daphne Guinness
Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do. -- Niecy Nash
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly. -- James Surowiecki
I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely. -- Christina Ricci
I think commercials get a bad rap, that there's no creativity to them, but I haven't found that to be entirely true. The process of auditioning for them can be tedious, but actually doing them can be really fun. -- Judith Hoag
I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world. -- Patricia McCormick
I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything. -- David Chang
It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen. -- Alanis Morissette
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. -- Joni Mitchell
I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever. -- Annie Potts
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government. -- Salman Rushdie
I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville. -- Jeff Dunham
Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation. -- Jason Silva
I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to. -- Regina King
Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap. -- Kelly Corrigan
I think, British food, it's had a bad rap. -- April Bloomfield
Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap." -- Kelly Corrigan
I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad. -- Kanye West
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. -- Peter Steele
I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that. -- Joan Cusack
I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else. -- Max Greenfield
At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap. -- Terry McMillan
Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable. -- Kate Christensen
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. -- Paul Mooney
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too. -- Paul Muldoon
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too -- Paul Muldoon
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours. -- Sharon Horgan
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism. -- Courtney Love
I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium. -- Alfonso Cuaron
What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
[Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help. -- Alan Tudyk
I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express. -- James Pearse Connelly
I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story. -- Drew Roy
Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that. -- Bryce Harper

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