Good Person Quotes - Page 7

• Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

  James Wright

  Hands, Practice, Hygiene

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• I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match.

  Sara Quin

  Sometimes, Tendencies, Persons

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• You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

  Ann Patchett

  Husband, Writing, Bad Friend

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

  Peter Abrahams

  Badness, Shows, Persons

  Peter Abrahams (2009). “End of Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Thinking, Dying, Looks

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

  Craig Zobel

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."

  Jon Ronson

  Hurt, Media, Acting

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, Terrible, Persons

  "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

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• That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.

  George Lucas

  Issues, Democracy, Doe

  "Democracy, Tyranny, And Star Wars" By Paul Davidson, www.ign.com. April 25, 2002.

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• It's a good time to say "Oh" and take stock and say, "Gee, how was I ethically this year?" That's the problem with faith, Joe. What it does is it kind of screws up your priorities. Your priorities shouldn't be saving your own ass, which is the focus of Christianity. The focus should be, I'm a good person, and I do that just for the sake of being good. Like the Christmas song says, "Be good for goodness' sake."

  Bill Maher

  Song, Years, Focus

  "Scarborough Asks Maher How to End 'Mutually Assured Destruction' of President-Bashing". www.newsbusters.org. January 2, 2010.

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• Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ends, Should, Discussion

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• I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.

  Boi-1da

  People, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Baby, Lying, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

  Alicia Keys

  Kids, Thinking, Shapes

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• It could be anything. It could be Jesus and it could be the Furby and it could be the lint that lives in my navel, but it's probably not. Whatever it is, I doubt we as humans on Earth could have any perception of it while we're here. So, why give yourself a headache thinking about it. Just be a good person. That's what an ethicist is.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.

  James W. Prescott

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Regret

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• A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Real, Guy, Good Movie

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• Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, People, Stories

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• I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be „slim“.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Eye, Jeans, Excess

  Marya Hornbacher (2014). “Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

  Edward Gorey

  Light, Tears, Bed

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• When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

  Tracy Morgan

  Children, Heart, Gold

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• I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

  Dan Harmon

  Men, Leader, Able

  "'Community' Creator Dan Harmon on His Ouster: 'Maybe I am Just a Jerk'" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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• I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

  Julian Casablancas

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  "'Julian kisses my neck seven times then lunges for my lips'". Interview with Neil Strauss, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2003.

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• But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

  Hank Green

  Good Life, Matter, Persons

  YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"Non-VIrgin... a Lexical Gap?", www.youtube.com. September 22, 2010.

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