Good Guy Quotes

• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Guy, Important

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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  Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.

  Sarah Palin

  Guy, President, Stopping

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2014.

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• This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Guy

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.116, Vintage

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• Let the work speak for itself.

  Anthony Caro

  Communication, Speak

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• Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

  Danny Glover

  Military, Media, Guy

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• Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

  William H. Macy

  Religious, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

  Jodi Picoult

  Guy, Might, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Guy, Want

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• The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Teaching, Talking

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• The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

  James D'arcy

  Girl, Guy, Way

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• '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

  Christian Bale

  Reading, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2007.

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• I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Long, Guy

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.950, Penguin

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• The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Thinking, Guy, Humanity

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• Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

  Robin McKinley

  Guy, Bigs, Charlie

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• (Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.) Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. ‘Member me? (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Guy, Sound, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night”, p.240, Macmillan

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• I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Worry, Guy, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.1504, Penguin

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• Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Guy, Dice

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true.

  Grant Morrison

  Beautiful, Jesus, Real

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• There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

  Patrick Ness

  People, Guy

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• I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Men, Sweat

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.148, Macmillan

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.

  David Blankenhorn

  Mother, Children, Men

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• No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.

  James Morcan

  Rights, Government, People

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• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

  James MacArthur

  Black And White, Guy, World

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• It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

  James MacArthur

  Winning, Guy, World

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