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Good Am Quotes

There is no story that is not true, The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
- Chinua Achebe

But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts,snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipopsticks all akimbo, the foli ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.
- Steve Almond

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.
- Brian Andreas

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
- Thomas Gold Appleton

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
- Oscar Wilde

Then what good is he? (Maggie)
I ask myself every friggin' day exactly what you did. What good am I? The answer is simple. There's nothing good about me and I like it that way. Pride myself on it, in fact. (Savitar)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.
- Saul Bellow

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back
Amen
- George Harrison

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.
- Jimmy Buffett

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
- George Carlin

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
- Barbara Cartland

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
- John Corigliano

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
- Macaulay Culkin

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
- Ian Fleming

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
- Vanessa Hudgens

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
- Alan Greenspan

When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.
- Jupiter Hammon

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
- Augustus Hare

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another's virtues more than we speak of one another's faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.
- Gordon B Hinckley

Once upon a time there was a war...and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.
- Denis Johnson

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
- Hamilton Jordan

The question, O me! so sad, recurring -
What good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here - that life
exists and identity,
that the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.
- Walt Whitman

There you go! That's better! You look good smiling! You know, you really shouldn't be gloomy all the time. I've met a good amount of gloomy people and they were just that--gloomy. Mopin' around like the end of the world had happened. Thinkin' that if they crack a grin they'll be carried away by goblins and such..
- M L Legette

Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.
- Rebecca Makkai

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
- Norman Mclaren

I always like to start my morning with a good amount of fruit. I really like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I'm feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or some smoked salmon.
- Cynthia Nixon

I've taken my number & if history is kind...I'll always be remembered as being a good & caring person who just made a bad mistake.
- Timothy Pina

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
- Bill Pullman

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.
- Guy Ritchie

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
- Peter Shaffer

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
- Upton Sinclair

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
- Alexis De Tocqueville

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.
- Goran Visnjic

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
- Diane Wakoski

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
- Arsene Wenger

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
- Alex Winter

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