Decent Quotes - Page 4

• The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

  Lynne Stewart

  Decision, Important, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

  Mark Shields

  People, Tragedy, Human Trafficking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff from children. They look up to me. Kids get different labels and things like that and I want those kids to succeed.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Kids, Role Models

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  School, Sunday, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

  Wendell Berry

  Giving Up, Men, Doe

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Mad Farmer Poems”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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• You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

  Judy Garland

  World, Deals, Knows

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• All around the world, there are children wishing they had some cool sneakers like you do. But before you decide to give them your old pair, they'd first like a decent meal, some fluid, and some medication so they can walk comfortably in your shoes.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Sneakers, Shoes

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• Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.

  William Monahan

  Art, Writing, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Criminals, Prison

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• I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  School, Yale, Law

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• Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Race, Helping, Burden

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• You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Taken, Thinking, Civilization

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Judas Unchained”, p.906, Pan Macmillan

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• Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

  Tony Blair

  Fighting, Successful, Battle

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• I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.

  Lunice

  Play, Piano, Used

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you got it, flaunt it may be decent advice for prostitutes, but no one else.

  Dov Davidoff

  Advice, May, Ifs

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• Corporations can't have it both ways. They can't tell Americans how much they want us to buy their products, but then run abroad to avoid taxes or hire cheap labor. American corporations should pay their fair share of taxes and create decent-paying jobs here - not in China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Jobs, Want

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• Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Spring, Unique

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• A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Selfish, Stories, Remember

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• You gotta understand also that teenage kids just don't have the experience and the studio technique. I mean, in those days it wasn't electronic like it is today, where you can hit a drum and, you know, the engineer does it all. In those days, everything was live and you had to have decent sounds, and through the years you get to weed out what's bad and what's good.

  Hal Blaine

  Weed, Teenage, Mean

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• My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.

  Obie Trice

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

  Anne Robinson

  Decision, Shy, Best Business

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Media, Being Sad, Failing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.

  Michael Ventura

  Integrity, Crazy, Dark

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• The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

  Warren Buffett

  Workout, Loss, Parking Meters

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• You don't have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day's work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.

  John Wayne

  Morning, Good Day, Fighting

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