Good Quotes

"Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them"

"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside"

"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people"

"Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there"

Eva Green, Actress

"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good"

Sean Booth, Musician

"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

"I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things"

Kate Moss, Model

"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times"

William Bell

"I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills"

Minna Antrim, Writer

"If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera"

John Hench, Artist

"So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting"

Sean Booth, Musician

"I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story"

John Hench, Artist

"I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake"

Luis Miguel, Musician

"Laughing is also good for your respiratory system"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me"

Kerry King, Musician

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