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• The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

  Graham Nelson

  Plot, Gone, Use

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• I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

  Jimmy Nail

  Trying, Process, Make Sense

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• I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Trying, Weakness, Cooks

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• I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Order, Two, Scene

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• The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

  Charles W. Pickering

  People, Want, Chance

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• I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Running, Dream, Race

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• Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

  David Sylvian

  Song, Fun, Creating

  "David Sylvian: 'Do gentlemen still take Polaroids? I think they take Viagra now!'". Interview with Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2012.

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• It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Years, Levels

  "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor.' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.

  Analeigh Tipton

  Thinking, Actors, World

  "FUTURES: Analeigh Tipton, One of Whit Stillman’s ‘Damsels in Distress’" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. Apr 05, 2012.

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• Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Moving, Drunk

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Practice

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• How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

  Tom Lantos

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• 'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

  RJ Mitte

  Mean, Opposites, Kind

  "Actor RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad". "Ouch" with Mat Frazer and Liz Carr, www.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2008.

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• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  A. J. McLean

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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• Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Genius, Able, Andrea

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• In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

  Ken Buck

  Golf, Play, Handicaps

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• All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

  Tony Blair

  Risk, Way, Ends

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• You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.

  Michelle Obama

  Coffee, Shoes, Doors

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clothes, House, Labyrinth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.199, Macmillan

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• I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

  Martina Navratilova

  Ovation, Lifetime, Shots

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• I always had a decent sense of outrage.

  Bella Abzug

  Outrage

  Bella S. Abzug, Mim Kelber (1984). “Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

  Graham Moore

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

  Matt Roper

  Dad, Army, Funeral

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• Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

  Kumi Naidoo

  Struggle, Moving, Men

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• The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

  Harold Hamm

  Jobs, Impact, Years

  "Hamm: China's Latest Attempt to Tap US Energy Market Is A 'Disaster'". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. Ocotber 14, 2010.

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