Better Place Quotes - Page 7

• The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

  Shirley Jones

  Reality, Feelings, Who Cares

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• Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

  Phillips Brooks

  Thanksgiving, Believe, Eye

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

  Robert MacNeil

  Retirement, New York, Thinking

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.

  Frank Iero

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

  Zack de la Rocha

  Rage Against The Machine

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• For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

  Jody Williams

  Extraordinary Person, Differences, Titles

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• Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Anger, Needs, World

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• On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Equality, Organization, Example

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• Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tea, Buns, World

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• The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

  Henry Ford

  Men, World, Tests

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• They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Writing, Gone

  Gene Collier, Joe Paterno (1997). “The Paterno Legacy”

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• Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

  Tommy Douglas

  Inspirational, Too Late, World

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• You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

  Daniel Clowes

  Mean, Men, Trying

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• There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

  Brad Meltzer

  Character, Work Out, Plot

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, articles.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Bullying, Work, Women

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• Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

  Phil Robertson

  Country, Children, Father

  "Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander". Book by Phil Robertson, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2013.

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• I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Grateful, People, Position

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• I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place.

  Bill Hicks

  World, Way, Insight

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• The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did, Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and mind of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language.
  For more than 40 years, people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest quality in family entertainment. There is no way to replace Walt Disney. He was an extraordinary man. Perhaps there will never be another like him… The world will always be a better place because Walt Disney was its master showman.

  Roy O. Disney

  Heart, Loss, Men

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• I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities.

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Mean, Thinking

  "D.V".

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• If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.

  Moby

  Cancer, Air, Water

  Interview with Lisa Mickleborough, www.vegnews.com. December 1, 2008.

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• I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

  Mike Dirnt

  World, Said, Ramones

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• Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care... be your best. You don't have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different!

  Kim Peek

  Our World, Differences, Different

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• This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.

  Barry Alvarez

  Player, Hype, People

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