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Daily Inspiration Quote by Farrah Fawcett

"When you do bad things, bad things happen to you"

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A plainspoken moral boomerang, delivered without flourish: do harm, expect harm back. Coming from Farrah Fawcett, it reads less like a philosopher’s thesis than a hard-earned line from someone who lived under a microscope, where consequences arrive fast, public, and often amplified. The simplicity is the point. It’s not trying to win an argument; it’s trying to end one.

The intent feels corrective, almost parental: a warning to the listener, but also a self-address. Fawcett’s career sat at the intersection of celebrity fantasy and tabloid punishment, a culture that loves to crown you and then gleefully narrate your fall. In that environment, “bad things happen” can mean more than karmic justice. It can mean reputational damage, legal fallout, losing people you thought were permanent, or watching the public reframe your worst moment as your whole identity.

The subtext is the uneasy bargain behind American fame: you’re allowed a certain amount of mess, but the bill comes due. There’s also a bracing lack of victim language here. It doesn’t flirt with “everyone makes mistakes”; it insists on accountability, even when accountability is inconvenient or humiliating.

What makes the line work is its blunt, almost childlike cadence. It’s memorable because it sounds like something you’re told early in life, then spend decades testing. Fawcett’s version lands as a weary verdict: you can outrun consequences for a while, but not forever.

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TopicEthics & Morality
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Later attribution: Secrets of the Combined Astrology (Zakariya Adeel, 2016) modern compilationISBN: 9781782794677 · ID: Spf4CwAAQBAJ
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Fawcett, Farrah. (2026, February 25). When you do bad things, bad things happen to you. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-you-do-bad-things-bad-things-happen-to-you-54167/

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Fawcett, Farrah. "When you do bad things, bad things happen to you." FixQuotes. February 25, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-you-do-bad-things-bad-things-happen-to-you-54167/.

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"When you do bad things, bad things happen to you." FixQuotes, 25 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-you-do-bad-things-bad-things-happen-to-you-54167/. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.

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Farrah Fawcett (February 2, 1947 - June 25, 2009) was a Actress from USA.

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