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  If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

  Morgan Freeman

  Luck, Good Things, Turns

  "Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet". "TEll Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2012.

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• They [people] start asking themselves "Well which one is the best? Which one would be good for me?" And all those questions are much easier to ask if you're choosing from six than when you're choosing from 24 and if you look at the marketplace today most often we have a lot more than 24 of things to choose from.

  Sheena Iyengar

  People, Today, Six

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

  Hugh Laurie

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Names, People, Culture

  "1998 Audio: Obama Admitted Welfare Recipients Potentially a “Majority Coalition”". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

  Ricky Martin

  Children, Creative, Priorities

  "I hated it when people tried to force me to come out" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 03, 2011.

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• My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

  Danica McKellar

  Baby, Children, Husband

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, School, Math

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Way, Has Beens

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• I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Want, God Knows

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• Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Joy, Common, Sometimes

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• Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Matter, Goodness

  Iris Murdoch (1978). “The Nice and the Good”, p.103, Penguin

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• I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

  Mike Myers

  Father, Thinking, Want

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• I don't know where to find a good guy. I just think that they're around and I think you have to be good and at some point you'll attract that. I really believe that. First, people should stop looking. The looking thing does not work. Just let love find you.

  Brandy Norwood

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Brandy reveals that Flo Rida is 'somebody in my life'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 12, 2010.

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• I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, People, Quality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

  Ann Oakley

  Mother, Children, Dedication

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Housewife”, Lane, Allen

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• Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Real, Believe

  "Interview: Joel Osteen on Power of Prayer, Forgiveness, Trusting in God's Timetable". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

  Master P

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

  Gilbert Parker

  Race, Fierce, Harm

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

  Lucy Powell

  Party, Voting, Democracy

  "Postal voting: easy does it" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

  Tara Reid

  Children, Kids, Mtv

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• Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Wakes You, Kind, Crisis

  "Ryan Reynolds Still Not Over Scarlett Johansson Divorce". www.aceshowbiz.com. May 27, 2011.

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• From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

  Samuel Richardson

  Humor, Twenties, Sixteen

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.380

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• There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  May, Pleasant

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• My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

  Mark Ronson

  Girl, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto.

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• You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

  Hillary Scott

  Whiskey, Get Away, Doughnut

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