Be Good Quotes - Page 40

• Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

  Will Oldham

  Cds, Looks, Chance

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• 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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• The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

  Sharad Pawar

  Host, Tradition, Treats

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• I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

  Jeremy Renner

  Roles, Kind, Knows

  "Jeremy Renner Talks Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the Avengers, the Bourne Legacy, James Gray’s Low Life, and More". Press Day Interview, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.

  Josh Radnor

  Reading, Thinking, Would Be

  "Josh Radnor Talks Liberal Arts, Books as Entertainment Vs. Enrichment, How I Met Your Mother, Ending the Series and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2012.

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• Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

  Amy Chua

  Kids, Independent, Leader

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• We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done - parents divorce and children believe it's their fault for not being good enough. Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth. Still, some people cling to this childish mind-set. As painful as their self-flagellation may be, they'd rather believe their crises are their fault so they can believe they have control. In doing so they make fools and false gods of themselves.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Growing Up, Children, Believe

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Jogging, Knees

  "This much I know: Kazuo Ishiguro". Interview with Chris Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

  Kevin James

  Teacher, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As we were negotiating, I didn't have a script. Once the deal is closed, they let you read the script. So, I got the script and was reading it like, "Oh, please be good!," because I'd already signed on the dotted line. And I read it and just went, "Okay, I'm going to be okay. Thank god!" It was a really funny, moving story.

  James Badge Dale

  Reading, Moving, Thank God

  Source: collider.com

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• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Melancholy, Deaf, Realism

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• This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Integrity, Offering

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• I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Ambition, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Kristen Stewart Video Interview The Twilight Saga: Eclipse; Also Talks On The Road And Breaking Dawn". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2010.

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• He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Action

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.27, Penguin

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• Learn to be good for something.

  Brigham Young

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• It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Self, Risk, Independence

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• It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Be Kind, Kind

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• I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

  Nick Cave

  Eye, World, Bunnies

  Nick Cave (2009). “The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel”, p.277, Macmillan

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• When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

  Fiona Apple

  Fun, Kids, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love Is, Wonder, Ifs

  Bernard O'Donoghue, Geoffrey Chaucer (2015). “Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection”, p.61, Faber & Faber

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• God is Good...Jesus is Lord Be Good to Yourself and each Other J-Jesus..O-Others..Y-Yourself

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Lord

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• Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

  Emily Giffin

  Letting Go, Past, Love Relationship

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.181, St. Martin's Press

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• He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Cease

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• Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

  Greg Howard

  Sports, People, Morality

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• Friends, if it matters to you, I think it is less important that we agree and more important that we learn to disagree with respect. Let's not expect to agree and get frustrated when it doesn't happen. Let's strive to hear each other out while bringing out the best in ourselves and others. I know it's difficult because I feel it everyday. But I also know it'll be good for us as individuals, for the organization, and the country. I invite you to strive with me and help shift our culture.

  Annabel Park

  Country, Thinking, Organization

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