- Boxing
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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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just to be able to put on the uniform in general is a blessing, and when it says Red Sox on it, it makes it that much better.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
- Regret
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered where I've been like, 'I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.' I don't want to do something if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I have a positive attitude about divorce because I have some friends who've gotten divorced, and I'm like, 'Well, if it's better, then - good!'
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.
- Crumble
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- Nov 07, 2020
That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a bond that has proven deeper and more enduring - for better or worse, through sickness and health - than the one I had with my now ex-husband.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020