Good Quotes
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
Colin Cunningham
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Lisa See
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It's very important to have a good relationship with the crew and cast because you want to get the best out of them. They'll work really hard for you if they like you.
Lenny Abrahamson
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
Kurt Vonnegut
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When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'
Lynda Barry
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We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slaveholding States are of theirs, and rather better than they can be of ours.
John C. Calhoun
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I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
Gene Hackman
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There's reason good, that you good laws should make: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
Ben Jonson
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I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.
George Benson
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I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.
Bee Wilson
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The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.
Madeleine de Souvre
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I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'
Joel Silver
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It was in the nature of truly effective good-luck pieces that human beings never really owned them.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Oh God, I would love to do Broadway, but I'm unfortunately not a very good singer.
Lyndsy Fonseca
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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Brian Tracy
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Marilyn French
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Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
Flannery O'Connor
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I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.
Geoffrey Boycott
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My mother is very positive and encouraging and nurturing, as a mother should be. She's my auditioning partner. She says when it's not good enough; she says when I'm ready.
John David Washington
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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
F. R. Leavis
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People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good.
Chrystia Freeland
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Everyone says I drive like my grandfather, but that's not always a good thing because he didn't always watch the road because he'd talk to you and look at you. He was a deputy sheriff, a cop, for a long time. So he was always looking around, checking out other things, other than what's directly in front of him.
Chuck Liddell
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I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.
Pete Cashmore