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I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.
Ryan Reynolds
Good
Some
Pretty
Pretty Good
Guys
Had
Decent
Working
Fortune
Good Fortune
The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren't perfect, but they provide a strong basis for religious groups to be free from fear of discrimination. I'm proud of this because it underpins what is decent about our country.
Sadiq Khan
Best
World
Strong
Law
Fear
Free
Country
Our
Religious
Some
About
Perfect
Because
Proud
Provide
Discrimination
Decent
Groups
Basis
I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.
Sally Rooney
Negative
Think
Characteristics
Characters
Fairly
Decent
Even
Fundamentally
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler
You
Once
Only
Him
Left
Legacy
Die
Decent
Anyone
Thing
The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'
Sandra Tsing Loh
Parents
Kids
Out
Fine
Simply
Merely
Schools
Terror
Educated
Affluent
Decent
Ordinary
Many
Keeps
The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.
Sarah Gavron
Education
School
Everybody
Late
Brought
Part-Time
Supposed
Schooling
Era
Were
Decent
After
Victorian
Level
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
Satya Nadella
Lost
Batting
Been
Gets
Decent
Average
Successful
Who
I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
Sean Bean
Bad
Bad Guy
Someone
Guy
Parts
Were
Been
Get
Trying
Refreshing
Quite
Just
Decent
While
English
Who
Compassionate
Playing
It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.
Sebastiao Salgado
Future
You
Important
Live
Other
Would
Eat
Generations
Like
Were
Decent
Where
Sustainable
Interested
Planet
Now
Right
If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something.
Shawn Amos
Time
You
Man
Song
Political
Old
Bat
Some
Give
Something
Write
Him
Anthem
Off
Up
Send
Going
Decent
Chills
Old Man
Creates
Last
Last Time
When I was younger, I liked guys who had a good personality and decent looks.
Song Hye-kyo
Good
Personality
Guys
Had
Liked
Looks
Decent
Younger
Who
I'm pretty good on my feet. I'm pretty decent at bobbing and weaving, but there's only so long you can bob and weave when you don't have a good base.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Good
You
Long
Pretty
Weave
Weaving
Pretty Good
Only
Feet
Decent
Bob
Base
Getting a chance to see good, decent, patriotic people who just want to have self-determination is something for which I will be grateful for the rest of my life.
Stephen Miller
Life
Good
Grateful
People
Will
Rest
Be Grateful
My Life
See
Something
Self-Determination
Getting
Just
Decent
Want
Patriotic
Which
Who
Chance
I don't want to sit here and disparage Paul Ryan the man, because he's a good guy. He's a moral person. He's a decent person.
Steve Schmidt
Good
Man
Sit
Moral
Guy
He
Because
Person
Decent
Want
Paul
Paul Ryan
Disparage
Here
Good Guy
I think that more and more Americans are insistent that, at a minimum, gay couples should be treated with respect and when they see a political party trying to stigmatize a group of people who are hardworking, who play by the rules, who raise decent families, they're troubled by it.
Steve Schmidt
Gay
Respect
People
Political
Party
Group
Think
Rules
Minimum
See
Insistent
More
More And More
Troubled
Couples
Political Party
Families
Trying
American
Decent
Should
Who
Play
Hardworking
Raise
Treated
A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.
Steven Pinker
Government
Confidence
People
Police
Become
System
Self-Defence
Fair
Police Force
Force
Court
Bullies
Effective
Essential
Decent
Violent
I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.
Susanne Bier
Human Being
Difficult
Think
Extremely
Consistently
Human
Decent
Being
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
T. E. Hulme
Nature
Man
Animal
Extraordinarily
Out
Constant
Only
Absolutely
Him
Limited
Got
Tradition
Fixed
Decent
Anything
Organisation
Whose
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
Tammy Bruce
Family
You
World
Conservative
Accepting
Genuinely
Friends
Friends And Family
Decent
Prefer
Might
Honest
Gathered
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman
Life
Dignity
Worth
Will
Responsibility
Stronger
Feeling
Living
Worth Living
Make
Always
Been
Than
Decent
Mankind
Create
In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.
Theresa Rebeck
Health
Theatre
Playwright
Health Insurance
Makes
Insurance
Than
America
Any
Decent
Average
Less
I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings.
Theresa Rebeck
Day
Happy
Every Day
Husband
Become
Healthy
Every
Kids
Hoping
Human
Decent
Sensational
Human Beings
Them
Working
Help
Who
Beings
Raised
Two
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann
Family
Rich
Respectable
Heard
Die
Decent
Poor
Should
Means
Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.
Thomas Piketty
Class
Wealth
National
Bad
Having
Both
Share
Equity
Efficiency
Decent
Middle
Middle Class
Useful
Reasons
Actually
Growth
It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
Tim Bishop
Me
Try
Will
Made
Few
Pain
Society
Increased
Benefit
Possible
Some
Cost
Morally
Seems
Alleviate
Bearing
Take
Decent
Use
Who
If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
Tim Wise
Health
Good
Opportunity
Care
Healthy
Society
Way
Out
Jobs
Good Schools
Schools
Health Care
Housing
Access
Real
Equity
Survive
Going
Decent
To Survive
Create
Productive
Paying
Figure
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