Good Way Quotes - Page 2

• The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.

  Martha Stewart

  Book, Home, Space

  "Martha Stewart is editing your life (that includes you, Bill Gates)". Interview with Beatriz Colomina and Rem Koolhaas, www.wired.com. June 1, 2003.

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• Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

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• I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

  Emilio Estevez

  Perspective, Half, Way

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• When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

  will.i.am

  Girl, Genius, World

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• I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things.

  Brian Regan

  Thinking, People, Use

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Jobs, Way, Employee

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, People, Understanding

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• The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

  Peg Bracken

  Party, People, Alive

  Peg Bracken (1964). “I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book”

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• I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Feminist, Mixing

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

  Liz Phair

  Silly, Stuff, Way

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• As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

  Jennie Finch

  Jesus, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Interview with Gary Leland, fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.

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• Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Children, Thinking, Law

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• Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

  Lois Lowry

  Way, Lists, Sometimes

  Lois Lowry (1979). “Anastasia Krupnik”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

  Sheila Heti

  Writing, Mind, Fiction

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• For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

  Sophia Loren

  Nice, Way, Sometimes

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• Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

  Jim Butcher

  Divergent, Viewpoints, Way

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.181, Penguin

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• I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Engineering, Wings

  "One-on-one with Newt Gingrich". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

  Paul Merton

  People, Laughing, Connections

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• Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

  Jacques Barzun

  Character, Expression, Robots

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• I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Education, Flower, Artist

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”

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• Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln – by sending people to the theater.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Years, People

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• You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

  Helen Jenkins

  Goal, Nerves, Way

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fashion, Media, Musical

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• Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Way

  "Preferred Style: Don't Flaunt It in Silicon Valley" by Somini Sengupta, www.nytimes.com. May 17, 2012.

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