Good Quotes
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There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.
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Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.
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Nothing good happens without a penalty.
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Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.
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What we instill in our kids is that if you work hard, good things will happen.
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It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
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The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me.
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Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'
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Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.
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I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980. At that time, very few people had heard of cognitive therapy.
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Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
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I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
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I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'
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I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
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In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend's exes, for example, it's really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing.
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Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.
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I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.
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Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.
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I am a celebrity, and it feels good to be famous.
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Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
