I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.
You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.
I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.
I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.
'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.
I have a pretty good record of winning in court.
Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.
In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'
I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
You either are a good director or you're not.
I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
