Be Good Quotes - Page 35

• TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

  Jimmy Carr

  Thinking, People, Three

  "Carr's a comic with universal appeal" by Paddy Hoey, Daily Post, July 15, 2005.

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• It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

  Tucker Carlson

  May, Conservative, Impossible

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, February 11, 2005.

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• The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, May, Might

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite".

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• You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today with your true worth. It is much higher than you often give it credit for being -- and now is a perfect time to know, and to gently assert, that fact. This is not about arrogance and it is not about over confidence. It is about a simple, dignified Knowing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Thinking, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 06, 2015

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• Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.

  Victor LaValle

  Beautiful, Daughter, Father

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• You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, People, Healthy

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• I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

  Shakira

  Children, Nice, Kids

  "The making of Saint Shakira" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

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• I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Feelings, Actors, Wrecks

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sideways". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

  Michael Fassbender

  Names, Choices, Want

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• Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.

  Lisa Randall

  Faith, Nice, Believe

  "The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall". Interview with Corey S. Powell, discovermagazine.com. July 29, 2006.

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Art, Lucky, Actors

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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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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• It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, Want

  "Obama Fires a ‘Robin Hood’ Warning Shot". nypost.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  Sarah Vowell

  College, Ideas, People

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• Be good or don't get caught.

  Traci Lords

  Caught

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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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• My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Cute, Mom, Voice

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• Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

  Teresa Wright

  Running, Children, Home

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• The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

  Camille

  People, World, Want

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• I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

  William Thomas Beckford

  Writing, Moon, Journey

  Letter to Catherine, Lady Hamilton, April 1781; cited from "The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill" by Lewis Melville, London: William Heinemann, (p. 92), 1910.

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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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• What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Attitude, Children, Years

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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• As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

  Henry D. Taylor

  Kindness, Long, Ifs

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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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