Lynn Good Quotes

If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.

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• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Song
  • Process

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • True
  • Language
  • Symbolism

• Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Friendship

• I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Lost

• I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Week

• I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Speak
  • Will
  • Only

• My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Growth

• My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Mother
  • Change
  • Relationship

• Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Time
  • Why
  • Mistake

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• These Are the music of meet resignation; these The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you To magnify, if in that drifting waste You are to be accompanied by more Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Sun
  • Moon

• The Nobodies; Cied in Mother Jones Magazine (1991) The Book of Embraces. March-April 1991. p. 71

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Book
  • Mother
  • March

• My favorite word is 'redemption.' I like both its meaning and the sound. My least favorite word is 'maybe.' 'Maybe' is almost always a 'no' drawn out in cruel fashion.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Fashion

• I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Believe
  • Power

• Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Character
  • Religious

• I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Help
  • Law

• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Movie

• I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  

  George Best
  • Money
  • Rest

• If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.

  

  Lynn Good