T Quotes
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“The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.”
“The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.”
“The good thing about recording everyone separately is it gives the directors more control - they can change one character's lines in a scene without having to re-record everybody, and the story changes a lot before the movie comes out.”
“The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.”
“The good thing about rejection is that too much of it can make you more tenacious, courageous and stronger, which eventually leads you to a positive outcome if you don't give up.”
“The good thing about rules is if you have to do an interview, and you make some rules for that interview, like, "I can only ask him about five years of his life or her life," it narrows down your story. It's the same thing with acting. In my profession, if I say, "These are the rules for this character," all of the sudden, you create life.”
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
“The good thing about shocking is that it clears the brain of preconceptions for a moment, and in that moment the work has a chance to cut through all the habits and learnt behavior of the viewer and make a fresh impact, before all the conditioning crowds in again.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is … it gives everyone a voice.”
Source: The Brian Solis Digital Reader
“The good thing about starting your Thanksgiving feast with Oeufs en Gelée is that everything afterward is going to taste pretty goddamned great by comparison, and by the time we'd gotten through the gorgeously crisp and moist goose, the prunes stuffed with duck liver mousse, the cabbage with chestnuts, the green beans, and the creamed onions, aspic was largely forgotten, and we didn't even mind much that I had begun the Thanksgiving preparations with the absolutely insane idea that I would make chocolate soufflé for dessert once we were finished with dinner. This, of course, being the delusion of a diseased mind.”
Source: Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
“The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.”
“The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.”
Source: British Bulldog
“The good thing about the dividend-paying stocks is, first of all you have stocks, which are real assets if we have some inflation. I think we're going to have 2%, 3% maybe 4%. That's a sweet spot for stocks. Corporations do well with that. It gives them pricing power. Their assets move up with prices. I'm not fearful of that inflation.”
“The good thing about the European Union is that the joint project ultimately benefits all Member States and not just a few.”
“The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.”
“The good thing about the studio is that, when the movie comes out, they will put their marketing and their money behind it, which isn't necessarily true with indie movies, just by the nature of it being an independent film.”
“The good thing about this Casino Royale thing, that I hope and pray, is that I'll have more opportunities. That roles will come up to me rather than going to the auditions. But I still have a lot of things to prove. I haven't, I think, shown all my talent.”
“The good thing about this game? There's always tomorrow.”
“The good thing about those original credit card commercials was that they were very "filmic", they were like little movies, so it wasn't a big step to think well maybe we could make a big movie using this character, which we eventually did.”
“The good thing about Twitter is that theres not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them. Its really fun in that way.”
“The good thing about winning the race against time is that even though your time is diminishing you always have a product to show for it.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.”
“The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.”
“The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.”
Source: HHhH: A Novel
“The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.”
“The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.”
“The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.”
“The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that.”
“The good thing is I picked a profession that I'm passionate about.”
“The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.”
“The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.”
“The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.”
“The good thing is that The Human League never really wanted to be in a pop group. We never wanted to be famous. We just liked the music. And I think that's kept us grounded. We're not interested in the celebrity side of anything. We just like getting on stage and doing what we're good at.”
“The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.”
“The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.”
“The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.”
“The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.”
“The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.”
“The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.”
“The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.”
“The good things at the U.S. health care system are that we have a well-trained labor force, particularly physicians; I don't think any nation trains doctors better. We have the latest technology, simply because we throw so much money at it. We are really technology-hungry in this country. That's a good thing. Our system more treats patients like customers, which is a good thing; that it's very customer-friendly. And it's very innovative, both in the products we use, in the techniques we use and the organizational structures we use. Those are all very good things, highly competitive.”
“The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.”
Source: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
“The Good things of life are gotten by Strength while the Great things of life are gotten by Grace.”
“The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.”
Source: Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale
“The good things of life do not fall from the skies. They can only come by hard work and over a long time. The government cannot produce results unless the people support and sustain the work of the government. There may be times when, in the interest of the whole community, we may have to take steps that are unpopular with a section of the community. On such occasions, remember that the principle which guides our actions is that the paramount interest of the whole community must prevail.”
“The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
“The good things take care of themselves.
We want to find all the negatives.”
“The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.”
Source: Lucia, Lucia: A Novel
“The good things worth having in life are hard work. Not the bad kind of hard, but the fun kind that challenges you and makes you want to get out of bed each day.”