Quotes with good-breeding

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  • David Hockney Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
    David Hockney
    English painter and printmaker (1937 - )
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  • Ben Elliot Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford As a dancer, I've always checked my body constantly: 'Am I having a good day, or am I having a fat day?' I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else. I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Josh Billings As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Buffalo Bill As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Barney Frank As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bobby Sherman As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Billy Graham As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bob Dole As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
    Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Billy Parish As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • August Wilson As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • George Washington Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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