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• There's no better way to process pain than to write.

  Rashida Jones

  Pain, Writing, Way

  "Sundance 2012: Rashida Jones on Her Screenwriting Debut, "Celeste and Jesse Forever" (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Way

  Samuel Johnson (2002). “A Johnson Sampler”, Non Pareil Books

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• The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

  Billy Joel

  Country, Rocks, Blue

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• I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

  Lauryn Hill

  Integrity, Artist, Giving

  "Nicki Minaj & Hot 97 Beef: Rapper Defends Summer Jam Pullout On Funkmaster Flex’s Show" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Exercise, Law, Imagination

  La Guerre de Troie N'Aura pas Lieu act 2, sc. 4 (1935)

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• We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Needs, Able

  "A New Way To Talk About Eating Animals". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. November 3, 2009.

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• I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Different, Culture

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Natalie Portman - Cluttered and Loving It". Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, www.oocities.org. March 1996.

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• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  Salman Rushdie

  World, Want, Way

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• We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, People, Guilt

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• Every morning when I wake up I think about you. Before going to bed you still linger on my mind. If there was any better way of letting you know exactly how I feel, you would know that I'm so in love with you.

  Rebecca White

  I Love You, Morning, Thinking

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• I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, People, Religion

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• It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - that this protégé of supernatural intellect couldn't think of a better way to forgive our sins than to have himself tortured to death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  Interview with Chip Rowe, www.playboy.com. August 20, 2012.

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• There is but halting for the wearied foot;
  The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed;
  One stronger far than reason mastered her.
  It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.

  Jean Ingelow

  Life, Feet, Stronger

  Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”

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• I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, Silence, May

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• Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Numbers, Giving

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• I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Party

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• There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

  Helen Thomas

  Teacher, Peace, Blue

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• I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Talking, Gossip

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• With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

  David Suzuki

  Technology, Impact, Negative

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• Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, Girl, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Character, Stories

  Interview with Victor Medina, www.cinelinx.com. April 11, 2012.

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• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  Gail Simmons

  People, Together, Way

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• You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

  Roseanne Barr

  Blessed, Way, Rich

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