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• I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Different, Culture

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

  Karin Slaughter

  Reading, Way, Access

  "Libraries saved me, now they need rescuing" by Karin Slaughter, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Past, Night

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• Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.

  Michael Copps

  Halloween, Doors, Today

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• Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Thought Provoking, Innovation

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• It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings of great joy and this must be reflected in our lives, if we are to be believable especially as we suggest to others that there is, in fact, not only a better way, but also the way. Scriptures that speak of man as a being who "might have joy" have more impact when falling from the lips or pens of men and women whose lives give fresh evidence of the validity of that scripture.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fall, Men, Impact

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• If there was a better way to go then it would find me
  I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
  Be kind to me, or treat me mean
  I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

  Fiona Apple

  Mean, Machines, Way

  Song: Extraordinary Machine, Album: Extraordinary Machine, 2005

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• We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Needs, Able

  "A New Way To Talk About Eating Animals". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. November 3, 2009.

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• There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Exercise, Law, Imagination

  La Guerre de Troie N'Aura pas Lieu act 2, sc. 4 (1935)

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• I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

  Lauryn Hill

  Integrity, Artist, Giving

  "Nicki Minaj & Hot 97 Beef: Rapper Defends Summer Jam Pullout On Funkmaster Flex’s Show" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

  Billy Joel

  Country, Rocks, Blue

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• I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

  Freeman Dyson

  Team, People, Important

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• When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

  Kevin DeYoung

  People, Calling, Way

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2015

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• We approach our shows the same way where we just have a map and we present them to the network so that they realize that, all things being equal, we can definitely head in that direction. Sometimes we do and sometimes we find better ways along the way.

  Bryan Burk

  Maps, Way, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

  Susan Blackmore

  Religious, Way, Would Be

  "Life Lessons". www.theguardian.com. April 07, 2005.

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• For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

  John Denver

  Brother, Children, Flower

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• Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?

  Bill Hicks

  Employment, Mexico, Way

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• We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

  Nick Lampson

  Thinking, Research And Development, Space

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• We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Business, Choices, Religion

  Neale Donald Walsch (2013). “What God Said: The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and th e World”, p.26, Penguin

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• Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

  Henry Ford

  Useless Things, People, Progress

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• You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

  Roseanne Barr

  Blessed, Way, Rich

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• It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Way, Should

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• It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways" or "I am a better way than the others, I am an aspect of truth; I am a fragment of the life." Instead, His claim was absolute, and allegiance to Him as the Savior of the world, was to take precedence over all the claims of men and religions.

  Walter Martin

  Jesus, Men, Way

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• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Way

  Samuel Johnson (2002). “A Johnson Sampler”, Non Pareil Books

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