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• I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Smart, People

  "ABC's This Week Promotes Dem. Al Franken: 'Traded in Comedy for Politics'". Interview with Jeff Zeleny, www.newsbusters.org. May 4, 2014.

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• Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Heart, Wine

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

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• What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Principles, Citizens

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• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  Jack Black

  Piano, Rocks, Years

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jan 04, 2014

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• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  Natalie Wood

  Movie, Stars, Thinking

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• What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Yourself

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• Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

  Sadie Frost

  People, Forgotten, Remembered

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

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• Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Years, Want, Scripts

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 15, 2003.

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• I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

  Delta Burke

  Thinking, Twenties, Enough

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• Sometimes your best isn't good enough

  Kersten Hamilton

  Not Good Enough, Sometimes, Enough

  Kersten Hamilton (2010). “Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Careers, Not Good Enough, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

  Debra Wilson

  Giving, Way, Faces

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• I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

  Balthazar Getty

  Baseball, Team, Stuff

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• I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Discipline, Not Good Enough, Musician

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• You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, Filmmaker, Wells

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• The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

  Nina Simone

  Hurt, Thinking, Self

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• English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

  Miriam A. Ferguson

  Jesus, Children, Women

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• Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Book, Idlers, Way

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• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Children, Enough, Our Children

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• If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Opinion, Comeback

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• I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

  Tony Blair

  Band, Enough, Has Beens

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• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Lying, Men

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• I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

  Leslie Caron

  Regret, Not Good Enough, Scripts

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• You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Motivational, Leadership, Lds

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

  David A. Bednar

  Yesterday, Self Improvement, Progress

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