Better Place Quotes - Page 8

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  Uri Geller

  War, Cancer, Nuclear Missiles

  "Who is the real Uri Geller?". Interview to Holistic London Guide, www.urigeller.com. 1997.

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• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

  Lady Gaga

  Change, Believe, Use

  " Lady Gaga launches foundation to 'challenge meanness'" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Justice, Community

  "Leisure as transformation: Volume 4". Book by Christopher R. Edginton, Peter Chen, p. 87, 2008.

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• Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Art, World

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• My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Mistake, Responsibility

  "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

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• At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Years, Giving, Groups

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• I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, World, Boring

  "Think of me as a man of mystery" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2005.

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• As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

  Julie Burchill

  Women, Ideas, World

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Believe, Our World, Media

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• And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.

  Ezra Levant

  Oil, Russia, Goal

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• I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Space, People

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• Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

  Meat Loaf

  Rocks, Singing, Fields

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

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• Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

  Colin Powell

  Zero, Military, Heart

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• My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Motivation, Thinking, Guy

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• When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Battle, Done

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• This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, News, Literature

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• I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

  Rafael Nadal

  Spain, Not Sure

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• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Government, Evil, Democracy

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• I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Thinking, Skills, Answers

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• The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

  Elon Musk

  Innovation, United States, Culture

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

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• I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

  Michael Moore

  World, Littles, Film

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• I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

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• Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

  Moliere

  Reform, Literature, World

  "The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover". Comedy by Moliere, 1666.

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• I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

  Martina McBride

  Careers, Important, Use

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