Very Good Quotes - Page 11

• Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

  Douglas Coupland

  Time, Long, Lasts

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• You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

  Gene Hackman

  Careers, Choices, Awful

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

  Cordell Hull

  Government, Years, One Day

  Remarks in the House, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505, April 26, 1913.

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• I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

  Kevin Kline

  Thinking, Singers

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• I usually have two feelings about service. The first is when I'm going to give service I feel as they I don't like doing this and why do I have to do it. The second is when I give service I walk away feeling very good about what I did and having gratitude for the opportunity.

  Randall Wright

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Two

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• [Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cat, Talking, Soul

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• It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way.

  Elon Musk

  Mind, Wish, Way

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• Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Republican, Democrat

  Ralph Nader (2009). “The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise is the cause of many of today's diseases. If we can get somewhere in time on foot, always walk instead of taking a vehicle. It is good exercise. Only if we have to go far should we depend on vehicles. Use a bicycle, whenever possible. This will save money, too.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Yoga

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• I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

  Charles Richet

  Science, Quality, Biographies

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• To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Moon, Progress

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• It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  Barbara Hershey

  Thinking, Hands, Australia

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• Everyday people are not very good designers.

  Donald A. Norman

  People, Everyday, Designer

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• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Mother, Would Be, Premonition

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• I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

  Diane Wakoski

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

  Helen Wills

  Women, Mean, Player

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• My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

  Christopher Walken

  Couple, Good Life, Father

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

  Christopher Walken

  Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

  Christopher Hampton

  Nice, Thinking, Good Movie

  "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

  Jimmy Dean

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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• To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

  Eric Idle

  Song, Musical, Doe

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• I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

  Pele

  Heart, Thinking, Too Much

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• Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

  Pele

  Soccer, Father, Player

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. April 27, 2011.

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• I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

  Robert Powell

  Dark, Love Is, People

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