Good Quotes
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Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks
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If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
Eileen Myles
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Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.
Barack Obama
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It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.
Betty Smith
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I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.
Neko Case
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Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Mark Haddon
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I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.
Frances McDormand
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
Al Pacino
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
Mary Doria Russell
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I'm a good putter. Like good shooters, just keep shooting. I'm just going to keep putting, and they're going to start going in.
Jimmy Walker
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For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.
Peter Munk
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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Keith Henson
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To do something good, it has to scare you.
Angelina Jolie
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YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
Gabrielle Aplin
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The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
Blake Anderson
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You'd have a good voice, if it ever came out of your throat.
Bobby Heenan
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Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.
John Gokongwei
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I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.
Eric Bristow
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Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
Cameron Mackintosh
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I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.
Ben Mendelsohn
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
Tawni O'Dell
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Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad.
Angus Deaton
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Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.
Laini Taylor