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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘good’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I’ve learnt that through life you just get on with it. You’re going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.” -Roger Moore
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“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.” -E. B. White
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“It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.” -Phyllis Diller
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“Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.” -William Hague
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“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.” -Ovid
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“My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.” -Ramakrishna
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“There’s no regret. You can’t regret. I mean, I’ve felt regret but I’ve also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don’t believe it. You feel it, it’s like guilt, it’s like jealousy, it’s like all those horrible things. You’ve just got to snip them and get them…
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“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.” -Roger Babson
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“Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.” -John Ruskin
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“I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself. When I’m serene, when I’m a good person, when I’ve been considerate of others.” -Elle Macpherson
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“I’ve gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy and the slick guy. I don’t really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.” -Robin Wright Penn
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“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don’t have time.” -Tallulah Bankhead
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“For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.” -John Sununu
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“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.” -Deepak Chopra
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“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” -Richard Dawkins
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“I went to my son’s graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I’ve never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it’s the good people who don’t speak out.” -Hamilton Jordan
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“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.” -Charles de Lint
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“Being in a rock band is about touring. It’s about writing songs and it’s about making records but it’s also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.” -James Young
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“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” -Bertrand Russell
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“When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you’re wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.” -Maria Sharapova
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“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.” -Stephen King
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“I’d rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.” -Ron White
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“Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.” -Emo Philips
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“You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” -David Bailey
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“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.” -Charles Bukowski
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“It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.” -Danny Boyle
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“A friend is always good to have, but a lover’s kiss is better than angels raining down on me.” -Dave Matthews
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“Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.” -Les Paul
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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” -Michelangelo
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“As soon as you concern yourself with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.” -George Orwell
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“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.” -Joan Rivers
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“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.” -Salvador Dali
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“I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.” -Dolly Parton
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“To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.” -Sophocles
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“Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” -Publilius Syrus
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“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.” -Nora Ephron
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“In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.” -Chinua Achebe
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“Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.” -Henry Rollins
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“I swear by that old expression, ‘One monkey don’t stop no show!’ The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.” -Angie Stone
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“A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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“The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.” -Patti Smith
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“Certainly, it seems true enough that there’s a good deal of irony in the world… I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there’s obviously a lot of deception.” -Kenneth Koch
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“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Sometimes I’m so tired, I look down at what I’m wearing, and if it’s comfortable enough to sleep in, I don’t even make it into my pajamas. I’m looking down, and I’m like, ‘T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that’s fine. It’s pajama-y, good night.’” -Rebecca Romijn
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“A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I’ve made some bad choices.” -Amy Grant
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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” -Walt Whitman
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“One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.” -Helen Hayes
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“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” -Thomas Carlyle
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“A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got nothin’.” -Leo Burnett
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“Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.” -Mia Hamm
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“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” -Frank Zappa
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“It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” -Gary Busey
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“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” -Joseph Stalin
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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” -Christopher Morley
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“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.” -Jim Horning
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“I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.” -Yakov Smirnoff
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“Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.” -Ben Stein
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“A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.” -Pope John XXIII
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“I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.” -Liam Gallagher
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“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.” -Mary Manin Morrissey
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“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.” -Edmund Burke
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“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“On a day when you’re tired, it’s important to just say good morning to everyone so they’re kind of aware that it’s gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.” -Lindsay Lohan
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“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.” -Charles Dickens
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“If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.” -Doug Coupland
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“Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don’t do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I’ll benefit from it.” -David Schwimmer
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“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” -J. K. Rowling
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“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” -William Wordsworth
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“We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don’t deserve it. It doesn’t matter if they’re family or if you’ve known them forever. If they’re not good for you, they’ve got to go.” -Gabrielle Union
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“Every test, every trial, every heartache that’s been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.” -Charles Stanley
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“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” -Kevin James
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“There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.” -Sitting Bull
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“Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.” -Zoe Saldana
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“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.” -Augustine of Hippo
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“Every good painter paints what he is.” -Jackson Pollock
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“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Well, real estate is always good, as far as I’m concerned.” -Donald Trump
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“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.” -Og Mandino
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“The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it’s a pretty good detour.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” -Saint Augustine
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“I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.” -Jose Mourinho
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“There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all – it’ll be ten o’clock and they’ll tell you it’s nine. You’re looking at the clock and you can’t even fathom why they’re lying. They just lie because that’s what they do.” -John Cusack
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“I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.” -R. Kelly
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“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.” -Sue Wicks
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“A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.” -Don Herold
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“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.” -Ted Hughes
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“I’ve always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you – mentally, physically, and spiritually.” -Robert Mondavi
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“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” -Jean Kerr
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“Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.” -George W. Bush
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“I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.” -Heath Ledger
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“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.” -Ludwig van Beethoven
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“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.” -Louisa May Alcott
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“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.” -Demetri Martin
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” -Vaclav Havel
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“I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.” -Victoria Beckham
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“As a real person, he wouldn’t last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we’ve moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House’s friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But…
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“Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart… good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it’s done.” -John Mayer
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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.” -Morgan Freeman
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“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.” -Aaliyah
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“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” -William Blake
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“I’ve run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.” -Carroll O’Connor
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“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“I’m delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn’t always do it in the way you expect.” -J. Michael Straczynski
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“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.” -Henri Matisse
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“Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.” -Willie Aames
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“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it’s just complaining.” -Joni Mitchell
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“I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.” -Red…
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“On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.” -George Mikes
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“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as…
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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” -Lewis Carroll
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“A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.” -Bodhidharma
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“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.” -Swami Sivananda
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“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.” -Will Durant
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“I’ve had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.” -Hillary Clinton
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“I’ve turned down jobs because I’ve said, ‘Honestly, I can’t find my way in. I can’t do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.’” -David Duchovny
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“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Fred Brooks
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“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” -John Stuart Mill
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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” -Channing Pollock
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“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.” -T. S. Eliot
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“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.” -Orson Scott Card
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“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.” -Karl Marx
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“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” -Edsger Dijkstra
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“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.” -Fiona Apple
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“I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage…
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“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.” -Homer
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“A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you’re not feeling very sexy.” -Cindy Margolis
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“Riding a motorcycle on today’s highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.” -Evel Knievel
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“The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.” -Lyn Nofziger
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“Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.” -Lou Holtz
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“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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“What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don’t think there’s any better feeling.” -Corey Haim
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“To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I’m in a good mood – don’t meet me in a bad mood.” -Avril Lavigne
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“I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I’d get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I’ve since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.” -Matthew Perry
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“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.” -Thomas Paine
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“The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“I’m not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.” -Ted Nugent
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“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.” -Victor Hugo
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“The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.” -Paulo Coelho
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“Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.” -Usain Bolt
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“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation.” -Temple Grandin
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“I don’t look to a man to get pride in myself. It’s not about having a black president, it’s about having a good president, and I think that’s the most important thing.” -Allen West
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“Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.” -Bob Riley
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“May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.” -Pierre de Coubertin
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“I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” -Harry Dean Stanton
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