Decent Quotes - Page 8

• There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Treats, Partners

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Decision, Want

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Boxing, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Income

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• I'm carrying on. I'm making the case for unity, I'm making the case of what Labour can offer to Britain, of decent housing for people, of good secure jobs for people, of trade with Europe and of course with other parts of the world. Because if we don't get the trade issue right we've got a real problem in this country.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Abiding

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Animal, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [MTV] just wanted a regular person that knew a decent amount about music.I'm so used to doing solitary interviews. You have some control - it's quiet, it's just you with your tape recorder and the person. Then when I was in front of the camera, I broke out in hives, which I continued to do well after I got the job.

  Jancee Dunn

  Jobs, Mtv, Cameras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side. They want to continue to use the grievance, to use whatever happened hundreds of years ago that did not even happen to them, as a way of expressing how this country is failing or is less than decent and good.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Years, Opposites

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.

  George Saunders

  Lying, Media, Data

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Dancer, Doe

  "'Available Light' Interviews: Frank Gehry, Lucinda Childs, and John Adams". Interview with Julie Lazar, www.kcet.org.

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• If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Player, Games

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Order, Punishment, Going Away

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I wish we could be decent to each other.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Wish

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• Honestly, I just try to drink lots of water and get a decent amount of sleep!

  Ashley Greene

  Sleep, Water, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

  Amos Oz

  Men, Periods, Fascism

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs, decent health care, quality education and communities of solidarity and support for young people.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, White, People

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

  Barack Obama

  Retirement, Kids, America

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

  Nancy Grace

  Thinking, Cop, Honorable

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.

  David Remnick

  Disappointment, War, Hard Work

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Careers, Want, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

  Cleve Jones

  Bullying, Gay, Past

  "LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kccu.org. November 29, 2016.

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• People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Tired

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

  Bill Ayers

  Guy, Lovely, Ambitious

  Source: thepointmag.com

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