Good People Quotes - Page 8

• It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail.

  Frank Luntz

  Book, Winning, Past

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, America, People

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• Believe in your work, educate yourself about the business, surround yourself with good people, set goals and timetables and stay focused on them.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Believe, People, Goal

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• I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

  Susan Sontag

  Believe, People, Brave

  "The 'Traitor' Fires Back". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. October 17, 2001.

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• We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, People, Transition

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• I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

  John McCain

  Mistake, Character, People

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2005). “Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember”, p.17, Random House

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• Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.

  Alister E. McGrath

  People, Challenges, Triumph

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• I am a girl who loves life and loves people and I find that in this life there are more good people than bad and that is who I choose to surround myself with.

  Ruby Gettinger

  Girl, Life And Love, Love Life

  "Interview: Ruby Gettinger from Ruby". Interview with Emma Loggins, www.fanbolt.com. November 14, 2008.

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• If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!

  Valerie June

  People, Forever, Might

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

  Peter Jacobson

  Thinking, People, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.

  Peter Jacobson

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There will come a day when you will be stronger and you will forget that person that just broke your heart. It's very hard to do that, but that's why you surround yourself with good people. Or write a song!

  Aino Jawo

  Song, Writing, Heart

  "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on Their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.

  Cher Lloyd

  People, Spats, Attached To Someone

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with all the bad stuff. But thank God that I woke and that I had good people around me to support me. There's not much more I can say about it. You have to want to be a better person.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Character, People, Support

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

  Eden Robinson

  People, Leader, Selfless

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had.

  Barack Obama

  Blessed, Thinking, People

  Source: time.com

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• In other words, when you have someone [like Ridley Scott] with that authority, then you tend to be left alone. But they were good and they're really good people, and I'm a big champion of the BBC and I think that like minds find each other and I think that FX and BBC is a perfect match.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  Source: deadline.com

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• Good people don't smoke marijuana.

  Jeff Sessions

  Marijuana, People, Smoke

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Block, Past, Law

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I just lucked into a lot of good people man. In my life and through friends, and in the music, that really embraced me and took care of me. I'm a lucky guy.

  Jon Gordon

  Men, People, Guy

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• I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to my friends and students, anything like that with a grant or a competition, it involves a great deal of luck.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Competition, Luck

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• There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.

  Jon Gordon

  Believe, People, Want

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• I've been blessed to work with some good people as well as different actors. So it's a blessing to be able to have friends who... the friendships are a result of projects that you've worked on together.

  Kim Fields

  Blessed, Blessing, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

  Richie Incognito

  Past, People, Demon

  Source: m.bleacherreport.com

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