Be Good Quotes - Page 20

• Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

  George Michael

  Inspirational, Causes, Make You Happy

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• Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

  Roy Haynes

  Mean, Years, Giving

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• I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Moving, Believe, Bills

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• In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Fun, Winning, Expression

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• You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Dancer, Ballet, Matter

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• I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

  William Hung

  People, Laughing, Want

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• Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

  Rhys Ifans

  Nice, People, Lines

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• Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

  Donald Judd

  Want, Morality, Wells

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• It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

  Naveen Jain

  Simple, Skills, People

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Sep 07, 2016

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• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Desire, Goodness

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• I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Grateful, Successful, People

  "Jeffrey Dean Morgan Interview - P.S. I LOVE YOU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2007.

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• Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

  Joel McHale

  People, Hollywood, Actors

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

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• Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Regret, Philosophy, Lying

  Song: That's What Living Is To Me, Album: Hot Water, 1988

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• A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

  Richard Jenkins

  Would Be, Western

  "Richard Jenkins on 'Cabin In The Woods' and why he knows nothing about characters off the page". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  Laura Marling

  Struggle

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

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• My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

  Michael Madsen

  Heart, Careers, House

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

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• There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Miracle

  "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Novermber 01, 2011.

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• There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

  Alessandro Nivola

  How You Feel, Helping, Given

  "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Novermber 01, 2011.

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• Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

  Richard Neal

  Trade, American Business, Workers

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• I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Sports, Absolutely Nothing

  "Kaitlin Olson Talks 'Molesty' Recurring Dream, Sticky Finger Past For HuffPost's #nofilter". Interview with Kiki Von Glinow, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

  Diane Lane

  Thinking, Fake, Would Be

  "Diane Lane, star of Secretariat: 'I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy'". www.mirror.co.uk. December 03, 2010.

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• When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

  Diane Lane

  Beautiful, School, Enough

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• Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

  Will Oldham

  Cds, Looks, Chance

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• I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.

  Michael Pitt

  Independent, Want, Film

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