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• I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Outkast, Humour

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• I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

  Carmen Electra

  Heart, Want, Toes

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Denial, Littles

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Stupidity, Fool, Honest

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Differences, Taste

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Art, Textiles, Lovers

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• Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspiration, Matter, Nonsense

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• I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

  Victoria Beckham

  Real, Men, Shoes

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• People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

  Ken Kesey

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Genius

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• I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Editing, Cameras

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 07, 2011.

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• I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Pages, Inkheart

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• Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Humans, Dies

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.488, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Opinion, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.

  Rene Descartes

  Desire, Littles, Matter

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• We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, People, Agree

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• That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

  Ian Mcewan

  Foundation, Doe, Doomed

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• It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

  John Irving

  Best Friend, Philosophy, Good Friend

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.269, Random House

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• Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn't have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he's getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, People, Pieces

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

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• There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Good Nature, Bottom

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

  Frederick Sanger

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

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• I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Night

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• We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agreement, Opinion, Share

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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Quality, Literature, Gains

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