My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
I wanted to show something good in Serie A when I joined Genoa.
I feel like nowadays it’s almost become a corny thing to say that you want to be a role model or do something good for the world, but the artists I’ve looked up to – like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Prince – were about something.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good – and fails.
You’d better have something good to say if you’ve got a roomful of people who’ve paid to see you.
Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can’t make planes or cars, we don’t have the materials. We do what we can.
How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?
Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good show, it is a lot more enjoyable.
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I’m going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they’ll be able to walk away with something good from it.
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
I know that a lot of German clubs are unhappy with the Premier League clubs’ spending, but I think it is something good for all clubs in the end.
A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you’re there.
We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.
Do something good for someone every day.
I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you’ve ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
My mother always told me, ‘I didn’t make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.’
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
It’s not about earning a paycheck, it’s about doing something good that you believe in.
If you look hard enough, you’ll find something good about me and say it.
It’s nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you’ve done something good.
If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I’m always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Social media is just a platform. What some people decide to do with it results in something good or bad.
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.
My mother always told me, ‘I didn’t make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.’
When you hear the fans, hearing everyone cheer your name, say something good to you, you feel awesome.
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, ‘You know something? Good for him’. I may not support him, but let him run.
A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‘Wow, that movie’ – or that show or whatever – ‘turned out really well.’
As a woman of color, I’ve come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing to do with my gender, race or class. (Unless something good happens to me, in which case they tell me my gender, race and/or class is exactly why that thing happened).
I didn’t vote for Trump. So we’ve got him. Let’s hope for the best. He might do something good.
It’s easy to show terrible people’s behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, ‘Isn’t that terrible.’ It’s more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
What’s the point of doing something good if nobody’s watching.
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don’t know the director. If there’s a good screenplay, there’s a chance that something good is going to happen.
There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it’s advertising.
Whenever you have the opportunity to reach out in your community and educate kids and help give them a sense of belonging, you’re doing something good.
Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn’t so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.
We should ensure to teach the next generation something good. We have such rich literature and history. Why can’t we make better stories?
Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
You know, I’m not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I’m going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I’m no millionaire!
You can’t put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.
Write something good that the people like.
If celebs try to do something good, people think it is a publicity stunt and if they do without showing it, they don’t get credit.
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
I like to do something good every day of my life, and I wanna leave the earth better than I found it.
Falling in love is awesome, but I’m never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you’re happily in love, it’s like, ‘OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.’
I’m very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it’s very hard for me.
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.
I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.
I am a Blazer at heart, and I want those fans to have something good to cheer for.
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn’t doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
It’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.
I’m always trying to find something good in a person wherever I can.
The only way to make something good is if you make it difficult for yourself on every conceivable level. You can’t cut corners; you can’t rest on your laurels.
‘Something Good’ is a feel-good song. A reminder that you’re dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.
When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.
When you have that connection to say, ‘I’m going to play for something bigger than myself,’ man, you have a chance to do something good.
Sugarland was a band we started to try to make things better. It was in the aftermath of 9-11; it was in the aftermath of my mother dying… there was a lot of weird stuff that had gone on that made you want to start something good.
