Good Quotes

"Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about"

John Irving, Novelist

"I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly"

John C. Hull, Professor

"I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all"

John Burns, Activist

"There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it"

David O. Russell, Director

"I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around"

William Scranton, Politician

"The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals"

Saul Williams, Musician

"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level"

Richard King, Director

"Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation"

John M. Ford, Writer

"Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational"

Larry Niven, Writer

"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play"

David Morse

"I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself"

David Morse

"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people"

David Bowie, Musician

"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good"

James Boswell, Lawyer

"I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work"

David O. Russell, Director

"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting"

Brian De Palma, Director

"Everyday people are not very good designers"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good"

Richard King, Director

"It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part"

David Thewlis, Actor

"It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again"

Kerry King, Musician

"A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

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