Decent Quotes - Page 29

• There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

  Joseph Barbera

  Jobs, Men, Years

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Opportunity, India, Asia

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• As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

  Tammy Bruce

  Family And Friends, World, Might

  "On being out, proud and conservative". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.

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• It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

  Tim Bishop

  Pain, Trying, Cost

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• If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

  Alex Chilton

  Song, Writing, Expression

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• Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  People, Friendly, Encounters

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• Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Skills, Littles, Sticks

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• Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

  Joe Dante

  Cute, Writing, Kids

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• Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

  Mark Dayton

  Support, Income, Minimum Wage

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• Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

  Klaus Fuchs

  People, Way, Kind

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• Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families.

  Robbie Fowler

  Doubt, Different, Balls

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

  Adam Gopnik

  Growing Up, Coffee, Food Culture

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• I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Distance, Views, Cities

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• Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Jobs, Real, Government

  "Spain's Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on the Arab Awakening and How the West Should React" by Jose Maria Aznar, www.cnbc.com. December 08, 2011.

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• I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

  Michael Arad

  Believe, People, Sometimes

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• And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Penance, Kind, Sin

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• I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

  Lil' Kim

  Reality, Meals, Matter

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• Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Children, Taken

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• I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, 80s And 90s, Film

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• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  C. Thomas Howell

  Moving, Next Move, Directors

  "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Smart, People, Public Service

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• Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

  Nick Kroll

  Trying, Want, Comedy

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• Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

  Ice Cube

  Clothes, Cracks, Unanswered Questions

  Song: Bird in the Hand

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• Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  War, Space, Civilization

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Opportunity, Roles, Television

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