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Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.
I just push away everything negative. Just do what you want to do and believe that you can do it and you will do it.
'Awkward' is a ubiquitous teen word to denote socially unsanctioned behavior. It usually implies first- or secondhand embarrassment when you or a friend step outside the rules. Awkward doesn't sound overtly judgmental or negative; it's deliberately vague.
'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.
Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.
I'm homesick everywhere I go, but England has a negative effect on my spirit to a profound degree. That trip from Heathrow into London is worse than the flight over there. It's just so grey, and I'm not a pub person, and the traffic in London gives me a heart attack. It's not a comforting place, on any level, to me.
The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.
I think everyone has such a negative perception of homeless people - including myself, before I'd researched homelessness for my role in 'Hollyoaks.'
When we've had images that perpetuate the negative stereotype of people of color, we've always had 'The Cosby Show' to hold up against that. And the fact that we no longer have that kinda leaves us not in a great place in terms of having the wide scope of the images of people of color.
I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
I always say when someone says something negative about me, it's really saying something negative about them.
The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.
Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.
You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.
I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.
I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%.
When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.
I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo.
There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.
I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
Winning changes the perception of what you do, and whether it's a positive or a negative, even though it's the exact same thing.
Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.
I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.
I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.
If you're not vulnerable, and you're too headstrong and clear about the path you want to take, it won't help you grow. Vulnerability doesn't have to be a negative thing. If you take the right spin on it, it can be extremely positive.
I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.
I don't think that having a hard time is inherently negative. I think that it can make you a stronger person; it can be tough and painful, but it can make you grow.
I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.
Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.
I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.
Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.
I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.
I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everything positive around me.
I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made... they were dead on.'
2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.
The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area.
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.
Even if I'm talking about something that's negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.
Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we're trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.
I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.
I can talk, I can express myself. But many times when people are talking just to talk, to say negative things, I don't like it because this is not a negative sport.
If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.
A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.
I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.
But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.
Normally you hear about Southeast London, and you hear about all the stuff that goes on down there, all the negative things, and the tabloids kind of stay away from all the positive things that happen that I see every day, which kind of outshines the negative.
People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white people. Their behaviour is the result of centuries of indoctrination.
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.
Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy.
In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.
I don't really understand this negative or positive role thing. A role is a role.
This perception that I'm negative toward Peyton and I don't appreciate the things he did is so far from the truth.
Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business.
It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want to get in trouble and end up in prison where I can't play football. It was as simple as that.
'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it's often negative things - about the hardships they face and what-not.
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.
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