Good Quotes
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I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.
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My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.
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The Amish do many other things that are good. Let them do that. Let the animals go.
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To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
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Some people say they have a thirst for life. They're excited about every day and they're prepared to look the bad and the good straight in the face and greet it all with a smile. I like to think I'm one of those people.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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This feels particularly good. It reaffirms the confidence I have in people.
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Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
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The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
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My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.
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As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.
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A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
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There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.
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Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.
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I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.
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Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.
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You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.
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If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.
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The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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My feet are my foundation, and they should always feel good!
