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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
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Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Guardian Australia' will connect our Australian audience to our global community and give readers around the world a better understanding of this very significant nation.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.
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