Better Now Quotes - Page 2

• I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'

  Andrew Cuomo

  Boys, Government, People

  'Cuomo: "I Am The Government.'" by Glenn Blain, www.nydailynews.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

  Christopher Walken

  Boys, Thinking, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm able to express myself better now. I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

  Charice Pempengco

  Real, Able, Celebrate

  "You’re the man, Charice!". Interview with Bum D. Tenorio, Jr., www.philstar.com. May 28, 2013.

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• There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

  Ransom Riggs

  Life, Book, Romance

  "Hollow City". Book by Ransom Riggs, January 14, 2014.

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• I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

  Barack Obama

  Race, Years, Relation

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

  Julia Sawalha

  Feel Better, Age, Baffled

  "'Being a mum has never bothered me too much but I love being an auntie': Julia Sawalha on kids, family and Ab Fab". Interview with Christine Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.

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• The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.

  Clive James

  Thinking, Poet, Great Things

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

  Paul Walker

  Surfing, Accepting, Whole Life

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Careers

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• When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Thinking, Lunch, Water

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."

  Jack Black

  People, Shapes, Wow

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• If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.

  Woody Allen

  Mistake, Moving, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

  Peter Weiss

  Wages, Useless, Poverty

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.81, A&C Black

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• I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

  Peyton Manning

  Years, Stronger, Balls

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• I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

  David Prowse

  Legs, Operations, Dues

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• Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

  Nina Garcia

  People, Choices, Style

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• I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Sleep, Phones, Feet

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• Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Twilight

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Memories, Powerful, People

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• I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Communication, Vietnam

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.

  William Goldman

  Running, Memories, Father

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.149, A&C Black

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• When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Oxygen, Talking

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• I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you were a fool to keep risking your life as you have...I know better now. I understand...why. I understand...' His [Murtagh] eyes widened and his grimace relaxed, as if his pain was forgotten, and an inner light seemed to illuminate his features. 'I understand-we understand.

  Christopher Paolini

  Pain, Eye, Fighting

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• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Average, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Virginia Woolf

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