Be Good Quotes - Page 36

• We've got to make sure that we rebuild the infrastructure in America, because we used to be - have the best bridges, the best roads, the best airports. And now, when you go to China or you go to Europe, you see that they are outstripping us in terms of infrastructure. And if we put people back to work, that would be good not only in the short term, but it would also lay the foundation, the framework for long-term economic and job growth.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Europe, Bridges

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

  Robert Osborne

  People, Trying, Today

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Differences, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Ideas, Government, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good.

  Shelby Steele

  Nice, Writing, Giving

  Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Do good, be good and see good. Do everything with love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Source: souljourns.net

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• When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

  Paul Saffo

  Japan, Hair, Might

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be delivered. But it's even worse to offer people a reward, like children, for being good, and to threaten them with punishment if they're not.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Children, Pie

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• What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

  Diana Ross

  Daughter, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

  J. Cole

  Mother, Boys, Actresses

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Views, Humanity

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I don't want to go to a foreign country and get lumped into that genre. I'm just looking at the bigger picture. This K-pop title might be good for now, but looking ahead it could hold me back, like a prison of sort. I'm a little wary about that.

  G-Dragon

  Country, Might, Titles

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• Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good.

  Eli Russell Linnetz

  Decision, Natural

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude. I think that's how you pass those tests.

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Real, Believe

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Class, Feelings

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• As we know, there are companies like Monsanto filling the Earth with their genetically-modified poison, which makes me wonder how many people share our belief that it's better to be good.We have to change the world!

  Nia Vardalos

  People, World, Earth

  "The "Helicopter Mom" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be called classical if it is an inspired improvisation. In either category, it is still music, and it can be good or bad or simply mediocre.

  Dave Brubeck

  Simple, Reality, Inspired

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Your agent or manager tells you. They go, "You're out. They're gonna get a new guy." But then I didn't feel bad. I didn't take it personally. Not that I'm competitive at all. But you have pride in that, you know? You want your ratings to be good. But now that I'm 62, I don't really care about the ratings. I don't care about the reviews. I care about the work, and I care about the people that I'm working with, and I try to make the experience for them and myself as good as it can be.

  Louie Anderson

  Pride, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

  Nellie McKay

  Like You, Stalking, Questioning

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas.

  Craig Finn

  Moving, People, Decision

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but pornography exerts a strong force on you, and one way to get further away from it would be to immerse yourself in a strong religious system.

  Karan Mahajan

  Religious, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Increasingly as I've gotten older, I'm much more interested in what the reality of the shoot is going to be versus what the result of the shoot might be. I'm so bad at guessing what's going to be good and what's going to be bad - there doesn't seem to be any correlation between things that are within your control.

  Max Minghella

  Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you beat someone with a good name, of course some people are going to say he's past his prime, he's washed up, or he shouldn't be fighting. You're always going to have critics. It doesn't matter what the outcome is, whether it be good or whether it be bad.

  Anthony Macias

  Fighting, Past, People

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Reason

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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