I. J. Good Quotes
There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
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The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.
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There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.
