- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Quotes
On growth, progress and making things better.
These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I could sing better.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a company has a navigation system or a database or a virtual assistant they like better, Microsoft will meet them in the middle.
- Emotional Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.
- Nov 07, 2020
You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fights when I've had the odds stacked against me, I definitely perform better because it's like a challenge to me - and I always like a challenge.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020