Better Off Quotes - Page 10

• Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

  Maya Lin

  Parent, Chinese, Would Be

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• So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their love when it is still pristine? I think each is lonely in a different place, though if you lose your love while it is still perfect you at least have a clear explanation for your grief, while if it gradually crumbles in your hands you do not.

  Jonathan Hull

  Lonely, Grief, Thinking

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

  Anthony Shadid

  Thinking, Childhood, Twisted

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.

  Drake

  Life, Starting Over, Needs

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• Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

  Tony Gaskins

  Waste, Wrong Person, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Jul 26, 2012

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• We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Energy, Needs, Culture

  "Interview with Roscoe Bartlett on Peak Oil". Interview with David Room, www.resilience.org. May 3, 2005.

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• Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.

  Umair Haque

  Meaningful, Real, People

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• I just happen to think people are better off doing something they actually like.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, People, Happens

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• It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

  John Travolta

  Jobs, Levels, Interviews

  "New Again: John Travolta". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Having a studio at home is like having a gym at home - sometimes you're just better off going out.

  Nick Rhodes

  Home, Going Out, Sometimes

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• You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

  Andy Rooney

  Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Mouths, Popping

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• There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are probably better off. I help them inwardly. I feel their souls seeking light, and I help all who come.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Names

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• Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Iraq, Doubt

  "The Capital Gang" with Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2003.

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• It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Years, California

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• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Adam Schiff

  Wisdom, War, Iraq

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• I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.

  Vigen Guroian

  Summer, Spring, Garden

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

  Allan Houston

  Father, Integrity, Real

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• The world is my oyster.
  The road is my home.
  And I know that I'm better off
  Alone.

  Ani DiFranco

  Home, Oysters, World

  Song: Dilate Complete Album, Album: Dilate, 1996

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• I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

  Christopher Walken

  Inspirational, Impression, Socializing

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• Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Important, Diagnosis, Mental Illness

  "Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for the mentally ill". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. August 11, 2010.

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• What freedom and hope is found in Christ! We don’t need to feel beautiful about ourselves to find happiness! In fact, we’re better off not even thinking about ourselves. Rather, God has offered us in Jesus Christ forgiveness, hope, freedom from sin and a joy that never ends.

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Beautiful, Jesus, Thinking

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• The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Feels, Universe

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• It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, People, Envy

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• Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Real, War

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• I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

  Peter Beardsley

  Soccer, Football, Player

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