Good People Quotes - Page 13

• Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

  Kid Rock

  Heart, People, Soul

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.

  Mariano Rivera

  Rain, Shine On, People

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• Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, People, Kind

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• When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Writing, Voice, People

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• As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

  Paul Feig

  People, Stuff, Directors

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• I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Violence, Rejects

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• For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Simple, Law, People

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

  John Cusack

  Lying, People, Nine

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• One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

  Lauren Conrad

  People, Way, Entertainment

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• In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

  Jackie Chan

  Dog, Past, People

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• I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Numbers, People, Navy

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• HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

  Richard Russo

  Stay Strong, Hbo, People

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• There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

  Herbert Simon

  Technology, Thinking, People

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• In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

  Zicheng Hong

  Average, People, Taoism

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• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Daughter, Fate, Light

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• It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Punishment, People

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• Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.

  Sherwood Smith

  Song, War, Winning

  Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Baby, Teacher, College

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• It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Men, People, Pity

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.186, Macmillan

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• There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Wicked

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• We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, People, Needs

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• And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

  John Grisham

  Fighting, People, Drug

  John Grisham (2000). “The Brethren”, Doubleday Books

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• What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Past, People, Evil

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• I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

  Andrew Young

  Wall, Believe, People

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• My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Strong, Children, Character

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