Good Quotes
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just because you put a guy in a tuxedo, it doesn't mean he's a good guy.
Allen Iverson
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My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.
Leila Aboulela
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The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
J. G. Holland
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You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
Al Kaline
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Might have done much more harm than good.
Ben Bernanke
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I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
Barack Obama
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I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.
Marc Platt
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She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
Alasdair Gray
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If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.
J. B. Priestley
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Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.
Louis Theroux
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Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.
Callimachus
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We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
George Eliot
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It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.
Andrew Flintoff
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Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.
John Hurt
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There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
Butch Trucks
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The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'
Ashton Eaton
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A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.
John Milius
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I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.
John Grisham
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For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.
Daniel Tosh
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I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.
Daniel Greenberg
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We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
James P. Hoffa
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I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.
Lauren Lapkus