Decent Quotes - Page 12

• But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

  Mos Def

  Creeps, Halfway, Deserve

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• Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Strong, Children, Lunch

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund - the nation's largest lobbying group for young people - talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Children, Thinking

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund - the nation's largest lobbying group for young people - talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• "Love" is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like "move". The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as "love" and as "guv" - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

  James Fenton

  Moving, Love Is, Perfect

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Careers

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3120, e-artnow

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• Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

  Ron Fournier

  Greatness, People, Leader

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• Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Years, Play

  " Noel Gallagher judging The X Factor: what contestants should expect" by Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.

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• Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

  Dick Gephardt

  Heart, Caring, Men

  Sen. Richard (Dick) Gephardt's speech at the Democratic National Convention, abcnews.go.com. August 16, 2000.

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• My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

  Edward Gibbon

  Obscurity, Language, Obscenity

  Edward Gibbon (1900). “The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions”

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• Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  People, Culture, Tvs

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Men, People

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• I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Sense Of Humor

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• Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Doors, Should Have, Faces

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• I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, Abuse, Constitution

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• You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Karma, Hands, Two

  "Is Believing in God Irrational". Book by Amy Orr-Ewing, p.75, October 2, 2008.

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• The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Moving, Agency, Perspective

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• It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Children, Study, Sometimes

  If You Don't Mind My Saying 'Whom Do We Picket Tonight?'

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• TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

  Jessica Lange

  Independent, Age, Salary

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

  Ryan Lochte

  Weekend, Thinking, Swim

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• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

  Moliere

  Passion, Smoking, Literature

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• When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

  Michael Moore

  School, Class, Littles

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

  Jack Nicholson

  Effort, Trying, Facts

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• The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Treats, Humans, Defenseless

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• I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

  Michael Palin

  People, Trying, Quality

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

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