- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Things Quotes
On wanting, expecting, and reaching for more.
These better things quotes reflect on raising the bar, including a filmmaker wanting audiences to expect better things with every project, a form of Aspiration worth admiring.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expectations don't scare me because I have worked towards them. I want people to expect better things from me with every film. I never want to be in a position where they don't expect anything from me. I want to be in a position where if they are expecting sun from me, at least I will be able to reach the moon.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
- Casting Directors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
- Glorify
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- Nov 07, 2020