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Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.
Keith Ellison
People
School
Books
Out
Allow
Fees
Like
Know
Shelters
Wages
Families
Afford
Decent
Homeless
Keep
Things
In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.
Ken Buck
Life
My Life
More
Like
Handicap
Get
Decent
Golf
Play
I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
Kenneth Langone
Life
Love
Good
Me
People
Wonderful
My Life
Honorable
Has-Been
Know
Were
Been
Wall
Wall Street
Decent
Ethical
Many
Hard-Working
Street
Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.
Kevin Kline
People
Think
President
Would
Would-Be
Corrupted
About
Remain
True
Like
Most
Were
Lots
Decent
Fantasize
Themselves
I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.
Kid Rock
Home
Human Being
Pretty
Arrow
Human
Decent
Being
Straight
Actually
I'm horrendous at capturing a decent selfie.
Kimberly Bryant
Horrendous
Decent
Capturing
So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
Kitty Carlisle
Time
Young
Those
Could
Days
Look
Sing
Were
Up
Person
Same
Any
Decent
Same Time
Young Person
Who
I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'
Kreayshawn
Music
Me
Culture
People
Mad
About
Onto
He
Put
Like
Know
Underground
Knows
Lot
Listen
Oh
Decent
Want
Used
I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.
Kristin Gore
Truth
Me
People
Value
Situation
Every
Sides
Value Systems
Systems
Both
Both Sides
Shameless
Sort
Because
Go
Labels
Discussion
Decent
Different
Depiction
Fictional
In-Depth
Really
Certainly
Level
Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner's eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.
Kyle Hill
Joy
Worth
Made
Winner
Holding
Chunk
Solid
Eye
Out
Would
Would-Be
Given
More
Weight
He
He Or She
New
She
Metal
Than
Just
Decent
Gold
Realization
Actor
Twinkle
Oscar
I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.
Larry David
Life
People
My Life
Tell
Done
Decent
Inadvertently
Now
Thing
Albeit
My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
Lauren Bacall
You
Director
Feeling
About
Most
Terrible
Forget
Decent
Script
Movies
Them
I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I'm not.
Leah Pipes
Thought
Pretty
Decent
Soccer
Player
I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.
Leila Janah
People
World
Believe
Other
Way
Markets
Fair
Global
Terms
Than
Decent
Them
Create
Poorest
Producers
Connect
Livelihood
I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.
Leonard Cohen
Good
Family
People
Rebellion
Tribal
Good People
Sense
Synagogue
Ancestors
Never
Had
Built
Were
Up
Handshake
Decent
Grew
Deep
Sat
Row
Third
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
Lester Bangs
Good
You
Creative
Yourself
Words
Moral
Something
Only
Recreate
Come
Like
Also
Doing
Up
Artistic
Maybe
Decent
Use
Original
Even
Basically
All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.
Letitia James
New
Housing
Rent
Decent
New Yorkers
Regardless
Income
Right
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.
Liam Cunningham
Freedom
Religion
Arrogant
Tolerance
Philosophy
About
Individual
Individual Freedom
Always
Effective
Gets
Any
Decent
Anymore
Anyone
Harm
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
Linda Chavez
People
Black
White
Otherwise
Despise
Generations
Learned
Southerners
Decent
Many
Even
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
Lionel Blue
Family
People
Own
Christianity
Too
My Own
Mention
Neutral
Crude
Like
Devils
Were
Pious
Decent
Decent People
Turned
Chambers
Gas
Gas Chambers
I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
Lloyd Cutler
Man
Job
Think
President
Remarkably
He
Simply
Over
Well
Himself
Builds
Up
Very
Intelligent
Contribute
Expectations
Did
Candidates
Decent
Cannot
Which
Ethical
Fulfilled
Including
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
Lorraine Toussaint
Made
Think
Way
Like
Attorney
Halfway
Were
Decent
Might
Actress
I was OK at tennis - good enough to beat Serena Williams, definitely... But no, I don't really like playing solo sport,s so I don't think I could have got to the top. I was just decent. Maths is my true calling in life, which is bizarre.
Lucy Bronze
Life
Good
Think
Enough
Top
OK
Definitely
Williams
Solo
Bizarre
Could
Beat
Tennis
True
Like
Calling
Got
Maths
Just
Decent
Which
Really
Playing
I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.
Lynda Resnick
Day
Science
School
College
Progressive
All Day
Pennsylvania
Fine
Able
Write
Never
Had
Allowed
Developed
Talents
Because
Math
Trained
Artist
Just
Decent
Public
Paint
Public School
Apply
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
Lynn Abbey
Money
Too
Recommend
Entry
Wrong
Go
Decent
Really
Many
Route
Publishing
Things
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.
Margery Allingham
Logical
Glorious
Intuition
He
Between
Know
Halfway
Blinding
Conclusion
Arrive
Nor
Quiet
Shoddy
Did
Gets
Decent
Flash
Process
Which
Deduction
Things
Two
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