Good Guy Quotes

• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Guy, Important

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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  Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.

  Sarah Palin

  Guy, President, Stopping

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2014.

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• This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Guy

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.116, Vintage

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• Let the work speak for itself.

  Anthony Caro

  Communication, Speak

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• Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

  Danny Glover

  Military, Media, Guy

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• Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

  William H. Macy

  Religious, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

  Jodi Picoult

  Guy, Might, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Guy, Want

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• The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Teaching, Talking

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• The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

  James D'arcy

  Girl, Guy, Way

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• '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

  Christian Bale

  Reading, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2007.

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• I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Long, Guy

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.950, Penguin

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• I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Men, Sweat

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.148, Macmillan

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• I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Guy

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• (Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. ‘Member me? (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Guy, Sound, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.240, Macmillan

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• I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Worry, Guy, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.1504, Penguin

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• Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

  Robin McKinley

  Guy, Bigs, Charlie

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• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  Daniel Craig

  Guy, Littles, Moral

  "Capone saddles up with Daniel Craig to talk COWBOYS & ALIENS!!!". Interview with Capone, www.aintitcool.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Guy, Dice

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  Zac Efron

  Hate, Humble, People

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• Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Nice, Mean, Guy

  "“Undercover Brother”: Neil Patrick Harris Interview". Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• "Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

  Rutger Hauer

  Hero, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

  Charlton Heston

  Dirty, Naughty, Guy

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• You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.

  LL Cool J

  Guy, Needs, Messages

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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