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We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
Lenny Kravitz

Best, Put, Energy

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
Conan O'Brien

Name, Five, York

I improve on misquotation.
Cary Grant

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
Emeril Lagasse

Food, Knowledge, Sleep

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.
Michael Bloomberg

Money, Fight, Down

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe

Made, Manners, Clothes

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

Honest, Difficult, Lives

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Political, American

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen

Government, Mafia, Bank

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
St. Jerome

Moment, Hour, Catch

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov

Play, Problem, Rules

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger

Community, Virtue, Animal

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
Solomon Ortiz

Women, Men, Today

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

Knew, Vulgar, Borrowed

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter Singer

Book, Writing, Lie

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Laurence Sterne

Mind, May, Read

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
Thad Cochran

Education, Good, Future

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
Javier Bardem

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
Michael Bloomberg

Help, Water, Values

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig

Heart, Place, Head

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
Richard Rogers

Forward, Everybody, Quality

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
Garrison Keillor

Time, Cannot, Town

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon

Win, Ourselves, Contest

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
Sally Ride

Time, After, Put

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
Jeff Bezos

Getting, Lives, Actually

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy Height

Life, Give, Often

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
Sargent Shriver

Work, Health, Person

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
Sarah Palin

Government, Problems, Sense

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.
Josh Radnor

Time, Cool, Trying

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
Ralph Merkle

Technology, Medical, Human

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