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• Very good. It was perfect.

  Veronik Mallet

  Perfect, Figure Skating

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• But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

  Katherine Dunn

  Book, Thinking, Animation

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• Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.

  Ken Fox

  Badass, Coffee, Espresso

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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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• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  Patrick Stewart

  Friends, Smart, Writing

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• I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

  Terry Riley

  Technology, Dancer, Tape

  Interview with Gamall Awad and Ammon Haggerty, www.qaswa.com. October 9, 1992.

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• I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Home, Technology, Meals

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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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• You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

  Graham Norton

  Looks, Earth, Want

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• Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

  Dan Abrams

  Thinking, People, Moron

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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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• It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

  Mao Zedong

  Bourgeoisie, Good Things, Significant

  Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works: The period of the socialist revolution and socialist construction. (I)”

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• My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

  Hugh Hefner

  Home, Kissing, People

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• True, but if it’s good it’s going be so very, very good.

  Jay Crownover

  Ifs

  Jay Crownover (2015). “The Marked Men Series Books 1–6: Rule, Jet, Rome, Nash, Rowdy, Asa”, p.120, HarperCollins UK

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• If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sunday, Shapes, Worship

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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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• Did you play? It sounded very good.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Play, Orchestra

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  Laura Mennell

  Hands, Opposites, Trying

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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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• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Life, Way, Good Company

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.

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• I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Teacher, Kids

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• As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Risk, Innovation, India

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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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