Decent Quotes - Page 39

• People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, People, Pay

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Environment, Persons

  Gaylord Nelson (1970). “America's Last Chance”

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• The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.33, Anchor

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• Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.

  Peter Medawar

  Pride, Practice, People

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• If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.

  Werner Herzog

  Girlfriend, Car, England

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• I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.

  Katharine Hamnett

  Fashion, Thinking, Goal

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• I think it is easy for people to build up an image of what I'm about. I consider myself quite a nice chappy really. I'm decent to people, I stay in and listen to Radio 4.

  Jay Kay

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.

  Christian Cooke

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.

  Erik Wolpaw

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving force in one's life. These recognitions seen in art are the difference between decent, extraordinary and great.

  Pat Steir

  Art, Differences, Self

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• Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Enemy, Motive

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• The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

  James A. Michener

  Things To Do

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• In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

  Pete Seeger

  War, Together, Vietnam

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• To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Way, Nihilist, Opposition

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Government, Together, Adjectives

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• I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Player, Light

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• You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, War, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle.

  Albert Einstein

  Two, Miracle, Live Your Life

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• Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

  O. Henry

  Home, Beer, Glasses

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.52, 谷月社

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• Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Black, Trying, Problem

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• Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, War

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• I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.

  George C. Scott

  Children, Pain, Mean

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• We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man that lives next door to me does for a living? He's a f*****g dentist.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Rapper, Doors

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• No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

  Maria von Trapp

  Long, Disgrace

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