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I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. -- Wesley Snipes
If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. -- Daniel Ellsberg
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?' -- Anna Kendrick
I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work. -- Adam Lambert
I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think. -- Malik Bendjelloul
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well. -- James MacArthur
I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that. -- Mario Cuomo
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance. -- Julia Glass
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say. -- John Hench
I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on. -- Nicky Oppenheimer
Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice. -- Jack Osbourne
Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing. -- Douglas Coupland
People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa. -- William Foege
I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good. -- Teresa Heinz
I love to make soups. My father used to say, 'There's nothing like a nice bowl of soup.' One of my favorites is... ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I've used escarole. Escarole in beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That's one of my good ones. -- Tony Danza
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. -- Andrew Motion
The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever. -- Tom Hanks
Say nothing but good of the dead. -- Solon
Evil grows when good people do and say nothing. -- Dorothy Koomson
War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again. -- Edwin Starr
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing. -- Blaise Pascal
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say. -- Will Durant
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. -- Gore Vidal
Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Twitter is good. Why say a lot to a few people when you can say virtually nothing to everyone? -- Jerry Seinfeld
It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?" -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. -- James Thurber
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. -- Diogenes Laertius
Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer. -- John Mellencamp
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Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so. -- David Gemmell
If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?' -- Nikita Khrushchev
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. -- Larry Flynt

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