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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate it in America where the protocol seems to be you are expected to tip regardless of the quality of service. I like to tip when it's not being demanded of me, and if the service has been good, I tip quite generously.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
- Proportion
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Hallway
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- Nov 07, 2020
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020