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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
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jackie was speaking at a drugstore, and I said, 'I'm not going to get this opportunity again, so I better take my chances and listen to Jackie Robinson now.' Little did I know, I got front row seats, and next to me was my father.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?
- Roses
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- Nov 07, 2020
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
- Better Ways
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- Nov 07, 2020