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  • If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

  • We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

    Country   Travel   Home  
  • 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.

    Guy   Lovely   Ambitious  
    Source: thepointmag.com
  • If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

    Looks   Decent   Humans  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters - but I got a woman the other day that was so upset with me because they said, 'How do you feel about the gay marriage thing?' and my answer to that is, 'I really don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.' I figure all the rest of it is your business and not mine. And not hers, incidentally.

    Sleep   Gay   Icons  
    "Betty White On Gay Marriage, Meeting Obama And Being A ‘Lucky Old Broad’". Interview with Chris Harnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
  • Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve the problem. It's very hard. I would love to have not necessarily a studio because then you lose so much control but I would love to have decent independent financing where I have the freedom and I have the money to do it right, to not be asking people to work for free or to work for half the rate and not ask those favors again and again because I now owe all these people back who've helped me.

    Source: collider.com
  • I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

    Freedom   Integrity   Men  
    "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.
  • In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

    Reality   Men   Names  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.22, Courier Corporation
  • The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.

    Dad   Husband   Ice Cream  
    "The Best-Laid Plans of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.
  • He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

    Two   Intuition   Quiet  
    Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books
  • Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

    War   Government   Pie  
    "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.
  • 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.

    People   Trying   Quality  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people.

    Names   People   Abortion  
    "Back in Town". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.
  • I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

    Want   Worried   Decent  
    Source: collider.com
  • Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

    Golf   People   Balls  
    "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 3 (1934)
  • A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

    Piano   People   Sound  
  • Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked on the world. They have not come anywhere near to the environmental degradation that we've done to the planet. So I think Muslims need to be seen in the proper light. They're mostly decent, hardworking people, people with deep family values, and they want to live in peace.

    Thinking   Light   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

  • 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.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

  • Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

    Holiday   Two   Cracks  
    Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan
  • In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

  • 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.

    Running   Animal   Men  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

    Home   Men   Becoming  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.139, Rajpal & Sons
  • Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

    Party   Class   Likes  
  • I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

    Jobs   Want   Decent  
    "Citizens before corporations". www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.
  • No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

    Adversity   People   Goal  
  • Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.

    Hurt   People   Helpful  
  • Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.

    FaceBook post by David McCullough from Dec 25, 2012
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