Better Off Quotes - Page 5

• You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Preparing

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

  Doug Benson

  Reading, Want, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

  Fiona Apple

  Fall, Matter, Holes

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• 24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.

  Will Hutton

  Children, Erosion, Years

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• I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Documentation, Deeper

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.

  Shaun Hutchinson

  Struggle, Hands, Two

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• Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

  Eddie Dean

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Financial

  "10 Things I Learned About Donald Trump in ‘The Art of the Deal’" by Josh Barro, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2015.

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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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• You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

  Andy Rooney

  Airplane, Missing, Bus

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• You are better off being homeless than being me.

  Britney Spears

  Being Me, Homeless

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• The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.

  Mark Buehrle

  Faster

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• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loneliness, Men, People

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• The more experienced you are, the better off you are.

  Ned Colletti

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• Just as important as knowing what gift God has given you is knowing which gifts He hasn't give you. Many Christians try for years to function with gifts they never had in the first place, and this doesn't do the Lord's work much good. It's like trying to hear something with your knee or throw a ball with your nose. Knees and noses are better off doing other things.

  C. Wagner

  Christian, Years, Knowing

  C. Peter Wagner (1983). “On the crest of the wave: becoming a world Christian”, Gospel Light Pubns

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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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• 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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• 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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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Fishing, Agony

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

  John F. Kerry

  Years, Four, Osama Bin Laden

  John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The moments of grace usually give us more than one good thing we can do, and we do well if we manage a pretty good batting average. ... It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situations - It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Healing, Opportunity, People

  "A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude".

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• We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

  Bruno Latour

  Thinking, Survival, Would Be

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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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• 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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• 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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