- Everything
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'
- Competitors
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- Nov 07, 2020
But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
- Admiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on my own when I say this, but I'm one of the few people that think that 'Everybody Loves Raymond' is better than 'Seinfeld.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can have reunification if another power replaces Kim Jong Un. I don't know who it could be, but I hope and I believe another power, another person will be better.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.
- At Least One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020