The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon
LivePeopleSocietyWrongLiving
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
Billy Corgan
BeginningProcessWrongAdmitWant
The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong with me, something unlovable, something seriously flawed in me. It's a fundamental thing; it's precognitive. You feel it rather than think it. How could you not?
Mary Gauthier
MotherMeThinkFeelYouWrong
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
Carol S. Dweck
BehaviorLearnWrongKindPraise
A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
Boy George
LearningMeWrongGoRelationships
'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.
Richard Hyung-ki Joo
GoodMusicWrongAliveLightsGo
I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.
Ernest Istook
PeopleLawThinkWrongSameTuition
I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.
Sullivan Stapleton
WrongPlayAustraliaNeverAlways
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Paul McCartney
WritingColorWrongImportant
But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
Jonathan Coe
TimeYouWrongTryBooksReasons
The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.
Peter Thiel
BestPeopleWrongImportantMissed
I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.
Khloe Kardashian
ThinkLookWrongShapesLikeKnew
There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.
John Mackey
MoneyMaking MoneyWrongNothing
When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
Bjorn Lomborg
GoodBusinessEnvironmentWrongKnow
I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.
Mike Singletary
ThinkYouWrongWayRightLine
Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.
Bob McNair
WrongWantQuestionSpotlightRole
A lot of people really didn't expect for me to have a record with Kendrick, but I proved them wrong. It's not easy to get Kendrick on a record, so it was a huge deal for me to have him featured on the song.
Rich the Kid
PeopleMeSongEasyWrongHim
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Eric Jerome Dickey
ChangePeopleWrongPlaceNothing
If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.
Sonny Perdue
NameWrongDoneWantOutSure
I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.
Paul Schrader
YouWrongI Was RaisedThingsArgue
Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human.
Johnny Iuzzini
ChefYouBadWrongGoHuman
I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.
Peter Falk
HellDoingEnjoyYouWrongEveryone
For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong.
Justin Tranter
MeLookingThinkSomeoneWrongWill
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
John McCarthy
AttitudeAttentionWrongPersonSaid
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