Be Good Quotes - Page 31

• I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.

  Angelina Jolie

  Grieving, People, Funeral

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2003.

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• If you need to strap a camera to you or get in a small space, then it makes sense to use digital.I do think it is possible to use a digital camera artistically, but it can only be good if you are using film technique. Film has grain, and digital has pixels, and there is not that much of a difference, but digital does not replace the need to create a scene and light it properly and spend time considering the shot.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Thinking, Light, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.

  Sarah Stillman

  Giving, Would Be, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We think in terms of fate even if we don't believe in it. Even something as trivial as missing the bus - we think: Well, it might be good for something. We always have that thought, no matter how critical we try to be. The idea that everything is always total chance - we're not made for that.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Sex, Sleep, Exercise

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think that humans are also set up to survive. We're not as small as rats, but we make up for that by being intelligent enough to make our own hiding places and to adapt to new habitats, even if they are changing very quickly. We have an enormous population, and can afford to lose billions of people without suffering very much as a species. Indeed, some would say losing five billion people would be good for the planet - I disagree with them, but can't deny that we would do just fine if there were two billion of us or even one billion.

  Annalee Newitz

  Intelligent, Thinking, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

  Bat for Lashes

  Kids, Winning, Lovely

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal.

  Mandy Stadtmiller

  Breakup, Disappointment, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There will always be good and bad in every community.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Community, Good And Bad

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• Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, People, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's relationships with books. Like anything else, these can be good or bad. The genre doesn't make it good or bad, it's the execution.

  Marco Roth

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

  Joel Stein

  Thinking, People, Identity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort.

  Marie Calloway

  Firsts, Boring, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Kind, Notoriety

  "Sarah Silverman: Turning Ignorance Into Comedy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 22, 2010.

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• Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.

  William Hurlbut

  Angel, Devil, Sometimes

  "Fictional character: Dr. Pretorious". "Bride of Frankenstein", 1935.

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• Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.

  Zicheng Hong

  Integrity, Taoism, Compromise

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• Everyday though, I'm just looking for like- I always ask people, What are you listening to? What sounds are good to you? Alot of people are in their car, in the club or on the internet looking and I just don't do any of that. Usually if I'm out and about it's because I have something to do, because I'm like a really big home body. If I'm at home, im watching Nickelodeon cartoons so sometimes I'm out of the loop with the cool music, but for sure I'm predicting that J.Cole is going to be good.

  Jhene Aiko

  Home, Car, People

  Source: earstyle.net

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• I think it's changing is that business is not as good as it was and it has become a real question in the world of fashion. You see, bags and shoes don't take on the seasonal quality that fashion does. A black leather bag can be good in any season, but you can't say the same about fashion, particularly about fabrication.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.

  David Icke

  School, Creating, People

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.

  Rachel Bloom

  Girly, Fashion, Fun

  Source: www.elle.com

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• British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

  Tim Harford

  Lying, People, Politician

  "Episode 707: Brexit". "Planet Money" with Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

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• I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

  Ted Leo

  Dream, Song, Ideas

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

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• I think it is really a personal journey of purification, rather than whether something external is going to be good or bad. Anything external will always live in that polarity - a combination of good and bad.

  Karan Bajaj

  Journey, Thinking, Purification

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Source: aaroncutler.tumblr.com

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• Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.

  Katie Couric

  Father, Men, Interesting

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