Be Good Quotes - Page 8

• It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

  Will Davis

  Play, Focus, Singing

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• Being good enough never is.

  Debbi Fields

  Self Improvement, Good Enough, Improvement

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• A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Grief, Men, Political

  "The Prince".

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• If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Animal, Self

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• Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Interesting, Ballet

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• They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

  Winston Churchill

  People, London, Would Be

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• I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sports, Real, Writing

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• It would be good karma.

  Helio Castroneves

  Karma, Would Be, Good Karma

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• Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Law, Numbers

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

  Melvin Belli

  Friendship, Believe, Individuality

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• No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it

  Tom Araya

  Writing, Focus

  "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knac.com. January 4, 2005.

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• Never give up, laugh a lot. Be good to others.

  James Dashner

  Giving Up, Laughing, Giving

  "Author Revealed". Simon & Schuster Interveiw, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.

  Robin Olds

  Attitude, Eye, Self Confidence

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.291, Macmillan

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• The Internet's completely over. [...] The Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. [...] They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

  Prince

  Mtv, Numbers, Gadgets

  "Inside Prince's bizarre life at Paisley Park: This is what happened when we visited the music icon" by Peter Willis, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2016.

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• I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it.

  Jean Shrimpton

  Happened

  "The Saturday interview: Jean Shrimpton". Interview With Alex Wade, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful and outreaching to those in distress. We can either subdue the divine nature and hide it so that it finds no expression in our lives, or we can bring it to the front and let it shine through all that we do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thoughtful, Expression, People

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• We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

  Thomas Beecham

  Musical, Good Enough, Enough

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• Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

  Chris Argyris

  Real, Covering, May

  "Skilled Incompetence" by Chris Argyris, hbr.org. September 1986.

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• It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Order, People

  Remarks by the President at "Open for Questions" Town Hall, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 26, 2009.

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• I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

  Steve Spurrier

  Past, Trying, Way

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• I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, conceited, and material-minded. For instance, lately whenever I've tried to concentrate on anything serious or beautiful, I've started thinking about the Spencers' dance next week. I am ashamed of my pettiness. I'm going to try to do better this year--develop my character more and not always be thinking about enjoying myself. I've always been so happy, I dread disappointment and unhappiness, but they would be good for me. But I don't want them.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Selfish

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• My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

  George Foreman

  Basketball, Team, School

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• I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  War, Government, People

  Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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