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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. -- Charlie Munger
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. -- Gary Oldman
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. -- Hermann Hesse
Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them. -- Antonio Banderas
The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge. -- Clay Shirky
Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value. -- Richard P. Feynman
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being. -- Peter Senge
Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul. -- Vivek Wadhwa
My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way. -- Amanda Plummer
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. -- Rachel Cusk
I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way. -- Christopher Cross
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do. -- Ursula Burns
I mean, I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way. -- Christopher Cross
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds. -- Jon Katz
I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips. -- Melanie Brown
I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising, and that was bad for business, and didn't I realize that. And I thought, 'What are you talking about?' The value of the currency in part, large part, reflects the world's view of the state of our economy. -- Jim Flaherty
Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold. -- Peter Schiff
Book values have some good and some bad features. -- Walter Schloss
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. -- Robert Lipsyte
We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good. -- Anna Politkovskaya
It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers. -- Philip Kitcher
Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead. -- Mac Anderson
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it. -- Janet Burroway

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