- 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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
- View
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- Concert Hall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020