- Cracking
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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
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better, but I don't wanna outshine her.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scale can create value for shareholders; for consumers, who are beneficiaries of better products, delivered more quickly and at less cost; for the businesses that are our customers; and for the economy as a whole.
- Nov 07, 2020
Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are legitimate concerns long term, in my view, about nuclear war and policy and stuff like that. But the world has become a better place every 20 years for the last 2,000 years.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you draw, the better you get.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020