The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.
In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn't focus too much on the bad.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
We did more to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy - the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).
No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad for your vision, but spending a lot of time playing first-person-shooter games is good for your vision.
I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it.
'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.
I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
Whenever I do Zoom teeth whitening my teeth 'zing' so bad. They're so sensitive. But I just put this on my toothbrush with water and scrub hard. It doesn't taste like anything and it works!
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.
When I first started, it was a dare. Someone basically said, 'You're a tough guy... but I'll bet you won't get on a microphone in front of a bunch of people.' I was terrified, but I did it. Once I broke the ice and got onstage and got some laughs, I thought, 'That's not so bad.'
I've never been a bad guy - never acted like a tough guy.
