Very Good Quotes - Page 33

• Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

  Alan Bradley

  Father, Military, Men

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.53, Delacorte Press

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• Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Facts, Serious, Way

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• I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team.

  Shane Warne

  Team, Mean, Thinking

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• I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

  Dabney Coleman

  Fun, Healthy, Way

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• Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Player, Gamer, Pool

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• I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

  Julie Harris

  Good Day, Hollywood Films, Saws

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• On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

  Phil Collins

  Good Day, Work Out, Language

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• Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

  Richard Widmark

  Crazy, Names, Actresses

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• I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

  Roy Wood

  Music, Book, Reading

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• To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

  Maya Angelou

  Anger, Soil, Injustice

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• It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Life, Missing, Quiet

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• Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.

  Sam Mendes

  Good Day, Answers, Rehearsal

  "Sam Mendes’s 25 Rules for Directors". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. March 11, 2014.

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• A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

  MC Hammer

  Song, Commitment, Thinking

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• Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  Paul the Apostle

  Teaching, Men, May

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• Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Arena, Cameras

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• The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.

  Wayne Hale

  Aerodynamics, Lines, Normal

  "Astronaut Will Make Shuttle Repairs in Orbit". "NPR News" with David Kestenbaum, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

  Andy Andrews

  Things Change, Life Happens, Good Things

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2017

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• I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

  Eric Stoltz

  Years, Play, Piano

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• England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  America, Wife, Mistress

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• I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Differences, May, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1905). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• In every good man a God doth dwell.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Good Man

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• I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

  John Fogerty

  Light, Long Ago, Ideas

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• I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

  Liev Schreiber

  Teacher, Lucky, Actors

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• Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

  Dalai Lama

  Laughing, Abandonment

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• Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!

  Steve Harvey

  Good Day, Delay, Growing

  FaceBook post by Steve Harvey from May 15, 2014

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