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• To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

  Michael Connelly

  Change, Memories, Book

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• Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?

  Jose Angel Gutierrez

  Baby, Race, White

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• So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

  Milos Forman

  Media, Thank God, Switzerland

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• I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Growing Up, Acceptance

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 03, 2003.

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• My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Mother, Business, Oil

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• One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Writing, Opportunity, University

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• Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

  Adam Rich

  Respect, Giving, Labels

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• Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

  Carl Sagan

  Dream, Television, Vastness

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 20, p. 359, 1985.

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• If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.

  Thomas Merton

  Cost, Care, Shapes

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

  Brian Lara

  Ms Dhoni, India, Cricket

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• God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.

  Walter Payton

  Blessed, Nfl

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• I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me.

  Jan Hellriegel

  May Not Be Perfect, Enough, I May Not Be

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• The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Book, Garden

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• I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Thinking, Mars, Maroon

  "Bridgit Mendler On ‘Good Luck Charlie,’ Music, And The Craziest Thing A Fan Has Asked Her". Interview with Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Men, Imagination, Enough

  "Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.

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• When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

  Conor Maynard

  Years, Records, Tests

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

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• I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Kids, Gymnastics

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• I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar Hero the first time I played it, and went out and bought a system for it.

  CM Punk

  Hero, Guitar, Wwe

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• Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, Freedom

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

  Moliere

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• Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Good Life, Action, Good Work

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• If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Corn, Toes, Sullen

  Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Reality, Differences, Forever

  "Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work".

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• David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.

  Michael Clarke

  Long, Directors, Excellent

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