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“I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.” — Carroll O'Connor

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“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.” — Fiona Apple

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“It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.” — Elle Macpherson

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“Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.” — Swami Sivananda

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“Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.” — Willie Aames

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“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.” — Morgan Freeman

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“I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.” — Jose Mourinho

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“I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.” — Ron White

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“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.” — Drew Barrymore

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“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.” — Charles Dickens

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“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.” — Charles Dickens

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“If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.” — Doug Coupland

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“Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.” — David Schwimmer

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“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.” — Ted Hughes

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“I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.” — Sue Wicks

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“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” — J. K. Rowling

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“I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.” — Helen Hayes

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“I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.” — R. Kelly

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“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.” — Og Mandino

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“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“A good reputation is more valuable than money.” — Publilius Syrus

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“You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.” — Emo Philips

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“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” — Jean Kerr

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