Good Quotes
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John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.
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You can consciously make a difference with music. Bob Marley is one of those few artists that everyone can say that they love. He makes you feel good. It's very real.
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To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Fun is good.
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
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As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.
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I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present.
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My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
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I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
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A good husband makes a good wife.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
