A. J. Jacobs Quotes

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

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• It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Be Happy

• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Better
  • Expectations
  • Flow

• I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Think
  • Better
  • July

• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Rock
  • Name
  • Rock And Roll

• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Sometimes
  • Name
  • White

• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Progress
  • Better

• Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Better
  • Million

• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• I always say the greats just get better.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Better
  • Say

• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Better
  • Destiny
  • Self

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Better
  • Excellence
  • Striving

• Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Better
  • Price
  • Jeans

• When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Real
  • Home
  • Nice

• Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Know
  • Me
  • Name

• There is no better way to create a confident and meaningful connection with someone than to be self-assured and true to yourself. Remember, you want someone to truly appreciate you for you, not for your best side. There is only one you. Be proud of that and own it.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Remember
  • True
  • Proud

• For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Rest

• Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Gods
  • Equal
  • Clemency

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Want
  • Way
  • Growth

• I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Better
  • Name
  • Dignity