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  • So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

    People   Giving   Reason  
  • Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

  • People go into things for the wrong reasons.

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  • Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

  • I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.

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  • Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

    Mean   Might   Reason  
    Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub
  • There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different 'Hamlets,' and every one has given me something different.

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  • If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

    "That Summer in Paris". Book by Morley Callaghan, 1963.
  • Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

  • So remember, if you're feeling bitter - or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished - or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.

    YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.
  • Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

    Passion   Heart   Reason  
  • If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

    Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.
  • You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

  • Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

    Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.27, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.

    House   Technique   Week  
  • Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

  • Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

  • Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.

    Regret   Taken   Ambition  
    J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.260, Penguin
  • People always clap for the wrong reasons.

    J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”
  • My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.

    Cousin   Real   Men  
  • If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

    Artist   Ideas   People  
  • Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

    Done   Reason   Bigs  
    Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series”, p.145, Hachette UK
  • Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

    Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”
  • It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  • You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

  • Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

    Waiting   Way   Reason  
    Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.491, Simon and Schuster
  • The reason people burn out is not because people are going hard [after God]; it's because they are working and perusing with the wrong spirit-trying to do it in the eyes of men with the wrong reasons; trying to get into a room you are already in.

    Eye   Men   People  
  • I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

  • Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

    Guessing   Merit   Doe  
    Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • ...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

    Fire   Way   Sticks  
    Deb Caletti (2010). “The Queen of Everything”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
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