- 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
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
- Nov 07, 2020
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.
- Shirt
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to make the product as good as we can, and we're going to try to put it out as reasonably priced as we can. We don't want a $600 shirt. We want a shirt which is around $100.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, 'Well, it's skate, so it's got to be, like, big baggy pants, cap backwards, big chain'... They don't understand that just because skating is the culture we're working in, it doesn't mean that we can't make good things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can have a leather jacket for $1,500, and if it's a good value, young people will understand that. But we also want to have the feeling that this won't be here in a month.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supreme wasn't meant to be a brand... It's a good name, but it's a difficult one to trademark.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020