Good Enough Quotes - Page 29

• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

  Branch Rickey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

  Troian Bellisario

  School, Ivy, League

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me

  Groucho Marx

  Husband, Inspiration, Years

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• What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Self, Impossible, I Have Learned

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• Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

  Dax Shepard

  Successful, Funny Things, People

  "20 Questions: Dax Shepard". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. September 19, 2012.

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• It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

  George Wald

  Mean, Breakfast Food, Giving

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• My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

  Marcel Proust

  Yesterday, Giving, House

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.

  Zendaya

  Light, Hair, Color

  Zendaya @Zendaya, twitter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

  Steve Spurrier

  Past, Trying, Way

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• I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Heart, Twelve

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Not Good Enough, Talent

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Long, Decision, Mets

  "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Abstinence)". TV Series, June 5, 2006.

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• Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

  Bruce Nauman

  Gone, Done, Sometimes

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• My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

  Michael Fassbender

  Goal, Acting, Income

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I do, the portrait, the landscapes, or any interest that I have. Things are good enough as they are, there's no reason to tamper with them.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Hands, Feelings, Portraits

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• I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

  Christina Ricci

  Mean, Thinking, Musical

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• If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Eye, Not Good Enough, Stomach

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• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal

  L'Wren Scott

  Thinking, Perfect, Looks

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

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• I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Past, Thinking

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• Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

  Steven Furtick

  People, Behinds, Greater

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• We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

  Barack Obama

  Long, Not Good Enough, Progress

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• Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful.

  Gerard Way

  Beautiful, Girl, Stupid

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• Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, Actors, Flesh

  Source: deadline.com

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• Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.

  Toni Morrison

  Commitment, Justice, Not Good Enough

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2011

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• That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Differences

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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