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- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.
- Articulating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that I'd rather be lucky than good. That's the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I'd have of finding more luck.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020