Decent Quotes - Page 13

• I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

  Alexander Payne

  Thinking, Three, Peter

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• A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

  Steven Pinker

  Government, Self, People

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• I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

  Kid Rock

  Beauty, Home, Arrows

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• I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Independent, House

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• I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

  Andy Roddick

  Loss, Winning, Thinking

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• Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  Christina Romer

  Government, Competition, Wages

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• Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Jobs, People

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

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• Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Fashion, Children, Men

  Family Limitation introduction (1914)

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• And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.

  Bobby Scott

  Girl, Jobs, Home

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• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Retirement, Hard Work, People

  "Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

  James Taylor

  Awards, Achievement, Sometimes

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

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• Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

  Paul Theroux

  Long, Sign Language, Way

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• In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

  Helen Thomas

  Nice, Past, Men

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• As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Long, Figures

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Sunday, Men, Thinking

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• I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

  Betty White

  Sleep, Care, Kind

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

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• I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?

  Kate Winslet

  Mean, Dresses, Now Or Never

  "Kate Winslet Looks Ahead" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 8, 2009.

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• After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

  Martin Filler

  Political, Charity, Shelter

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• Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

  Freddie Mercury

  Mean, Doe, Want

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• The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

  Banksy

  Stupid, Drinking, Sneakers

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• You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Want, Should

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• Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  People, Be Confident, Should

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• takes a devil to make a decent angel.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Angel, Devil

  Tom Spanbauer (2000). “The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel”, p.184, Grove Press

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• What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Honest, Ends

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 17, 2016

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