- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
You just control what you can control and just hopefully go win games and keep getting better.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your whole body. I think acting with your whole body gives you a root, and you can build from there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of wasting time on proposals which are difficult to forge consensus on, such as public nomination and party nomination, it's better to focus the discussion on how to form the nominating committee and the nomination process.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's clear that means testing can direct limited resources to the elderly in need and achieve better results in poverty alleviation.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that impacted me the most was in the 12th grade. I just assumed I would get the lead in the musical. Well, I didn't get it; I got the second lead, and I was devastated... my mom said something like, 'Often the supporting character is better.'
- Better Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
- Nov 07, 2020
You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020