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As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do. — Declan Lowney

I'm just trying to do my part to save the world. — J. Cornell Michel

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health. — Frankie Cosmos

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. — Milton Friedman

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world. — Andy Summers

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know. — Dee Dee Ramone

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. — Justin Theroux

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. — Tupac Shakur

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. — Marilyn Monroe

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms. — C.S. Lewis

Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so. — Henry Thomas Hamblin

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time. — Andrew Motion

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you. — Billy Graham

Cash said he was someone "made up of bad parts but was trying to do good. — Robert Hilburn

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do. — Frank Spotnitz

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings. — Jacques Barzun

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do. — Neale Donald Walsch

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people. — Ferdie Pacheco

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so. — Deborah Meier

We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love. — D.L. Moody

I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone. — Yvon Chouinard

What I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong. — Helmut Newton

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos. — Frederick Lenz

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live. — Charlie LeDuff

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing. — Matt Nathanson

I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me. — Nicholas Thorburn

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up. — Richard Dawkins

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. — Andrew Solomon

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do. — Steve Jobs

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more. — Andy Warhol

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing. — Scott Rolen

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good. — Nicholas Winton

All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures. — Abdul Kalam

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel. — Big K.R.I.T.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts. — Linus Torvalds

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all. — Julianna Margulies

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world. — Alexei Sayle

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part. — Flavor Flav

Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say. — Gitty Daneshvari

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do. — Charles Osgood

Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good? — Kevin DeYoung

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. — Mark Twain

I'm trying to do better than good enough. — Drake

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing. — John Clare

People hurt each other. That's how it works. At least you were trying to do something good. Not everyone can say that much. — Tana French

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human. — Roxane Gay

There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers. — Pope Francis

We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name. — Keith Stroup

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do — Nikki Sixx

I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime. — Gwen Stefani

Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound ... that's all good. — Dr. Dre

I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient. — Lydia Davis

It's just people trying to get on TV, not like it's really going to do them any good since people can just watch me. — Zach Braff

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas. — Nhat Hanh

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath. — Ben Folds

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice? — Adam Levin

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn. — Irwin Winkler

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear. — E.B. White

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age. — Brit Marling

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama. — Julian Jarrold

It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing. — Nathan Fielder

Stop
trying to do what's right and do what feels good for you. You're fucking overthinking everything again. — Cora Reilly

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. — Mahalia Jackson

We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society. — Jon Ronson