Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others."
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Be Good
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Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good."
John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do."
Thornton Wilder
Playwright, Novelist, Poet
"If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good"
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."
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"I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do."
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"They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!"
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"The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him."
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"Terrible is the temptation to be good."
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"If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?"
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"In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good."
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"If you can't be good, be loud."
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"The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?"
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"Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life."
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"If your desire is for good, the people will be good."
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"Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance."
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
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"Be good and you'll be lonesome"
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"To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others."
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"Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you."
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"If you can’t be good, be colorful."
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"Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society."
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"Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it."
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"While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
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"There is a way to be good again."
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