"Be not merely good. Be good for something."
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"Being a good example teaches others to be good."
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"There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't."
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"Good music is good music, but it has to be good."
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"To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something"
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"I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us."
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"It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil."
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"Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times."
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"It would be good if we bore one another's burdens."
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"What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors."
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"Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what to do. I don't, especially in a work environment. You have a little formula yourself. But when I see a director do something I think, whatever he or she just said totally screwed that actor up and now they're worse. I'm never going to do that. I'm going to figure out something else. I want my movie to be good. And that's how it works."
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"A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it."
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"It is my dominant intent to be good to me."
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"A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing."
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"I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long."
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"Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself."
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"If you can't be good, be good at it!"
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"I wanted so terribly to be good to him."
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"Learn to be good for something."
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"You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good."
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