Better Quotes
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?
Imelda May
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch -
You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
Patrick Warburton -
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Baltasar Gracian -
After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.
Venus Williams -
I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
J. R. Martinez -
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
Barry Ritholtz
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
Malcolm Turnbull -
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
Sam Rockwell -
By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
Gary Johnson -
I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
Adam Lambert -
There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
Warwick Davis -
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
Yogi Berra
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I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
Paolo Sorrentino -
My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
Calvin Johnson -
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
Barbara Kruger -
Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
Barry Ritholtz -
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Harold Rosenberg -
Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
Adam Carolla
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We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
Kate Middleton -
It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
Jack Bowman -
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Saint Ambrose -
It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.
Barry Eisler