Be Good Quotes - Page 28

• There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

  Fernand Point

  Garden, People, Claims

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• I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

  Leila Aboulela

  Wanted, Prepared, Ifs

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Interview with Filip Vukcevic, www.ign.com. September 19, 2007.

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• Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

  C.J. Sansom

  Boys, People, Littles

  C. J. Sansom (2006). “Winter in Madrid”, Macmillan Children's Books

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• Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  People, Needs, Policy

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• There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Girl, Sweet, Thinking

  "Wanted: one leading man" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2004.

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• I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.

  Mike Shinoda

  Opportunity, Guy, Groups

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• I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Doctors, Bishops

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

  Chelsea Handler

  Important, Needs, Way

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.168, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

  Ben Horowitz

  Technology, Two, People

  "HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

  Anne Tyler

  Thinking, Earth, May

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• It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Bears

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• But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

  Edward Bond

  World

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• It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

  Miguel Cabrera

  Baseball, Moments, Happens

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• But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Children, Eye

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• Good education has got to be good entertainment.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Entertainment, Good Education

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• I'd rather be good than lucky.

  Brian Bosworth

  Lucky

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• Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

  Marcia Wallace

  Jobs, Heart, Feelings

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• Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

  Andy Samberg

  Want, Snl, Ends

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Differences, Giving

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• Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

  Mark Russell

  Business, Believe, Bills

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• After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Belief

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• If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

  Epictetus

  Believe, Would Be, Firsts

  "The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments".

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• There is a lot of focus on TV, in magazines...about being skinny and rich. I don't think those are that important. It's much more important for us to be good, honest people that try to help others and live the best life we can. That's where you get your satisfaction ultimately.

  Laura Evans

  Cancer, Helping Others, Thinking

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• I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, People, Trying

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