Be Good Quotes - Page 32

• I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.

  Michael Pitt

  Independent, Want, Film

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• Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

  Jessica Zafra

  Boredom, Healthy, Soul

  Jessica Zafra (1998). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

  Phillips Brooks

  Dark, Hands, Praying

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The light of the world, and other sermons”

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• If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Challenges, Cry

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• Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Trying, Originals

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• You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

  Seth Godin

  Night, Good Enough, Settling

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.11, Penguin

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• Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

  Colman McCarthy

  Easy, Results, Ifs

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• A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Girl, Sleep, Men

  Helen Gurley Brown (2012). “Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

  David A. Bednar

  Desire, Enabling, Atonement

  "The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality". www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Buddhism, Giving

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

  Timothy Simons

  School, Differences, Facts

  "Jonah’s Arc". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2015.

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• It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Gains, Revolution, Taxes

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• The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.

  Sam Tomkins

  Struggle, Player, Rugby League

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• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, California

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• To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Whole

  Vamanananda (Swami.), Arun Kumar Sinha, Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Eternal Platform”

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• I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.

  Black Francis

  Rocks, Looks, Want

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• It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

  Emily Blunt

  Stupid, Good Movie, Dollars

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• It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Purpose

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• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Dwelling, Space

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• I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sleep, Phrases, Enough

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

  Bryan Cranston

  Chance, Wells, Written

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• Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Inspiration, Years, Two

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• Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.

  Andrew McMahon

  Stars, Quilts, Past

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• We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

  Studs Terkel

  Nice, Vocabulary, Use

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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