Decent Quotes - Page 5

• One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff from children. They look up to me. Kids get different labels and things like that and I want those kids to succeed.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Kids, Role Models

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

  Bo Derek

  Beach, Three, Fabric

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I`m surprised people are that hopeful about what government can do, because if you believe in socialism, society can run a pretty decent government, it can provide services, it can regulate the economy effectively.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Believe, Government

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.

  George Carlin

  Brother, Nice, Childhood

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• Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Civilization, Perspective, Ego

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

  Harold Ramis

  People, Trying, Energy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Treats, Partners

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Decision, Want

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

  Ben Fountain

  Letting Go, Writing, Funny Things

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special.

  Justus Kohncke

  Bridges, Special, Rubbish

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.

  Michael Boatman

  Book, Character, Mind

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Unique, Two

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Income

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• A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Heart

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• I'm carrying on. I'm making the case for unity, I'm making the case of what Labour can offer to Britain, of decent housing for people, of good secure jobs for people, of trade with Europe and of course with other parts of the world. Because if we don't get the trade issue right we've got a real problem in this country.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Abiding

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Clinton, Persons

  "Full transcript: Tony Blair". Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

  Tony Blair

  Ideas, Politician, Knows

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Animal, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [MTV] just wanted a regular person that knew a decent amount about music.I'm so used to doing solitary interviews. You have some control - it's quiet, it's just you with your tape recorder and the person. Then when I was in front of the camera, I broke out in hives, which I continued to do well after I got the job.

  Jancee Dunn

  Jobs, Mtv, Cameras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When someone shuts down on you... There were a couple of times of somebody that was just unpleasant, and you can't get them to loosen up. It's this horrible spiral when it's on camera, because you're trying to get them to like you, to trust you, to give you decent answers.

  Jancee Dunn

  Couple, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side. They want to continue to use the grievance, to use whatever happened hundreds of years ago that did not even happen to them, as a way of expressing how this country is failing or is less than decent and good.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Years, Opposites

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.

  George Saunders

  Lying, Media, Data

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I was never like, "Oh man, I want a Grammy and I'll do whatever it takes". Someone like that might not do what it takes to have a decent touring career, because they're in the studio trying to master whatever they're doing to win a Grammy.

  Vince Staples

  Winning, Men, Careers

  "Vince Staples Talks About Prima Donna, Celebrity & Frank Ocean". Interview with Highsnobiety, www.highsnobiety.com.

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