Very Good Quotes - Page 28

• The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  India, Kicking, Pearls

  "The Devil’s Accountant" by Larissa MacFarquhar, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2003.

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• Well, from 1969 to 1984, until he died of AIDS, a teacher and I were very good friends. He even attended celebrations at my home, and I have to admit I even went with him to gay bars once in a while. So I know a homophobe when I see one. Pat Buchanan ain't no homophobe, believe me.

  Ezola B. Foster

  Teacher, Believe, Home

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• There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Caring, People

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

  Brian Tracy

  Speak, Wells, Paid

  Source: productivemag.com

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• I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Archer, Thinking, Arrows

  "Best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Reality, Giving, Soul

  "Anthony Hopkins Interview THE RITE; Plus Updates on THOR, 360, Composing Music, Painting, and a lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 26, 2011.

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• My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Running, Real

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

  Steve Reich

  Writing, Differences, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  Janet Jackson

  Issues, Advice, Trying

  "Tyler Perry, Jill Scott, and Janet Jackson Wonder Why Did I Get Married?". Press conference, movieweb.com. October 9, 2007.

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• I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

  John Landgraf

  Home, Thinking, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know video games.The last video game I played, apart from Dance Dance Revolution at Jeremy's house, which I was very good at - Scarlett [Johansson] and I will always have "Billie Jean" - was Super Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo. I'm from the Dark Ages.

  Joss Whedon

  Dark, Mario Kart, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Writing, Mind, Life Experience

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."

  Steve Lillywhite

  Artist, Personality, Ego

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Giving, Trying, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

  Saint Augustine

  Grace, Good Work

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• A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.95

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• If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

  John Ruskin

  Perfection, May, Satisfaction

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.19

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• I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  Richard P. Feynman

  Motivation, Learning, School

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• A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Kissing, Hands, Forever

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• Love is the tact of every good,
  The only warmth, the only peace.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Peace, Love Is, Tact

  Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

  Jason Hirschhorn

  Technology, Years, Going Away

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• The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.

  Freeman Dyson

  Art, Strong, Talking

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• Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

  Florence King

  Respect, Men, Experts

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.50, Macmillan

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• I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Education, Long, Reason

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Decline and Fall”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible

  Constantine Manos

  Impossible, Easy, Difficult

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