Arthur Helps Quotes

The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
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• If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

  

  Hansie Cronje
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• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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• I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
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• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• It's good to be intuitive.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers want to read it. The Apple newsstand is an important place where a lot of consumers are. And Apple is really becoming a good partner to publishers. We are confident we can deliver a experience for our readers that 's really good.

  

  Laura Lang
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• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

  

  Andrea Navedo
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• I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

  

  Corin Nemec

• The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
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• I'm good at pants. They are just two big sleeves sewn together.

  

  Chris March
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• The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.

  

  Arthur Helps
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