Decent Quotes

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Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just… — Ron Fournier
Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos.… — Noel Gallagher
Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family. — Dick Gephardt
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. — Kathie Lee Gifford
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people… — Newt Gingrich
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and… — Allen Ginsberg
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi… — Lindsey Graham
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true,… — Gail Collins
I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To… — Simon Cowell
I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people. — Sloane Crosley
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor. — Vincent D'Onofrio
I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently. — Larry David
But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent. — Mos Def
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to… — William O. Douglas
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. — Marian Wright Edelman
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to… — Marian Wright Edelman

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