There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.
To be a politician must not be a pleasure always.
Leader of the East German Democracy Movement. Musical Director of the New York Philharmonic
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
It's easy for people to talk about the negative.
Well, I spent 23 years in politics, and bits of that were fun.
Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.
And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.
You think you're being given all of these things: phones that can communicate with other devices, car service that's better than a taxi, all of these amazing things that are available to you at any time. It isn't until you've swum across the river that you can start to see the negative aspects of it all.
I'm usually always thinking about the cons.
A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.
Goa isn't just about tourism and happy faces.
Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.
Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.
Friendship is full of dregs.
Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my television work involves the less than pleasant aspects of human nature, yet I'm never pessimistic.
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
Famous-ness is awesomeness... but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.
Business, unfortunately, isn't all sunshine and lollipops.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Football is not only sunshine.