Better Off Quotes - Page 17

• Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

  Bill Burr

  Running, Destiny, Hot And Cold

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Kids, Long

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January 2010.

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• My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.191, Penguin

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• We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of oil to America and keep it at a reasonable price and try to get some more control. If it was about oil, going into Iraq, I guess, could have made sense. But at a certain point, when the insurgency began and we were in real trouble, there would have been some awareness that we were going to jeopardize the oil.

  Seymour Hersh

  Real, Adventure, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

  Seth

  Simple, Would Be, Upside Down

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• The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Names

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• I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

  John Gimlette

  Strong, Writing, Feel Better

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, President, Industry

  "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, People, Able

  "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I think some of those guys might actually be better off if they had more wussy in them.

  Steve-O

  Thinking, Guy, Might

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

  David McCullough

  Self, Quests, Sometimes

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, School, Yearbook

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• That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Husband, Fiction, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like the harder the work, the better off I'll be later in the season. If I don't work out, it's not so much my letting me down as it is letting everybody else down.

  Mark Prior

  Work Out, Harder, Feels

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• You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

  Harvey Mackay

  Bored, Scared, Being Scared

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jul 05, 2011

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• Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things.

  Benjamin Carson

  Home, Opportunity, Skills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Men, Iraq

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.

  Buck Brannaman

  Use, Ifs

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• I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Love You, Body, Embrace

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

  Katie Couric

  Life Is, Fairs, Not Fair

  "Condoleezza Rice Tells Katie Couric, "I Don't Miss Washington Very Much"". Conversation, www.glamour.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Average, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it every day, I'm so much better off.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Animal, Two, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.

  Mark Martin

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.

  David Axelrod

  Thinking, President, Care

  "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Thinking, Wind

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Says No to The Exorcist in 3D". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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