A Good Thing Quotes

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
Conrad Black

Good, Difficult, English

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.
Gary Bauer

Good, Long, Law

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Good, Why, Else

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.
Ezra Koenig

Music, Good, Successful

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
Ben Bernanke

Good, Start, Whatever

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
Eric Ries

Work, Good, Results

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.
Elisha Cuthbert

Good, Care, Bad

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing.
Stephen Colbert

Good, America, Idea

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin

Beauty, Happiness, Good

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bobby Jindal

Good, Simple, Deep

But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
Mariel Hemingway

Good, Experience, Strong

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
Ingrid Newkirk

Good, Society, True

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.
Stefan Edberg

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.
Giuliana Rancic

Good, Strong, Reality

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
James MacArthur

Good, Idea, Dividends

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
Garry Trudeau

Good, Business, Here

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
Floyd Abrams

Good, Mean, Thinking

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.
Jean Dujardin

Work, Good, Hard

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
Ray Liotta

Good, Small, Put

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
Colin Greenwood

Good, Everything, Anymore

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.
Steve Guttenberg

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
Neil Cavuto

Age, Time, Good

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
Mark Cuban

Good, Care, Rich

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.
Simon Baker

Good, Great, Stand

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.
Kris Allen

Music, Good, End

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.
Katie Couric

Change, Good, Sometimes

Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.
Colin Hanks

Good, Movies, True

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
Shawn Ashmore

Good, Different, Door

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
Robyn Hitchcock

Good, End, Start

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.
Michele Bachmann

Good, Fun, Someone

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