Decent Quotes - Page 7

• Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Careers, Want, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Careers

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

  Cleve Jones

  Bullying, Gay, Past

  "LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kccu.org. November 29, 2016.

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• People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Tired

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Jobs, Men, Interesting

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• It's absolutely true that people who believed Hillary Clinton would be a decent or even strong nominee need to think why that got that wrong. Laying the entire blame at the feet of Russia and the FBI is not sufficient. The biggest reason things went wrong were her own choices and her own weaknesses.

  Jonathan Chait

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Morning, Believe, Loss

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

  Eric McCormack

  Couple, Laughing, Jokes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some other kind of sentence, you have the right to petition a federal court to review what happened to you. And until [Bill] Clinton, you had three, four, five, even more years I collect records of people who have been on death row for eight, 10, 12, 14 years - this is before Clinton - who finally got a decent lawyer, usually a pro bono lawyer, and an investigator, and were able to find out - they - they're but approved that they're - that they were innocent.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Mean, Eight

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what makes me worry whenever looking on the road that Israel entered and shows no intention of leaving.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Israel, Worry, Leaving

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

  Noam Chomsky

  Honesty, Integrity, Responsibility

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.

  David Remnick

  Disappointment, War, Hard Work

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

  Barack Obama

  Retirement, Kids, America

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, People, Morality

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

  Lindsey Graham

  Responsibility, Government, Borders

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with their work. That is why I am not a proponent of the concept of unconditional basic income. I am, however, very much in favor of decent wage agreements, secure and lasting jobs, employee participation in decision-making and the examination of the social justification for claims and payments.

  Martin Schulz

  Jobs, Party, Agreement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother.

  Rob Lowe

  Brother, I Love Him, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Intelligent, Europe, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Car, Creative

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

  John Larroquette

  Jobs, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Hurt, Jobs

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

  Bill Ayers

  Guy, Lovely, Ambitious

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

  Robert H. Frank

  Government

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Loyalty, Simple, Lines

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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