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We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.
It can be really tough to find decent veggies when you're racking up highway miles or bouncing from airport to airport.
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.
I started cooking when I was growing up in Hyderabad, and I was already pretty decent when I was around seven years old.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
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.
I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches.
Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
I wear decent shades, but if I lose them, I'll go right to the store and get cheap ones because my eyes are that sensitive.
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.
Cannock is a friendly place. You can stroll down the road to a decent pub and have a good curry, and it is not too faceless.
I know Priyanka Chopra personally. She is a cultured, decent and educated person and the fact remains that she is an Indian.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
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.
I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
To be effective at delivering a decent life for all, the U.N. must treat all the people it serves with impartiality and respect.
There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired Up' for the Saturdays.
It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.
I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard.
When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.
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.
It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.
I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.
I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
As a halfway decent college DJ, I had been exposed to some great progressive stuff and always took pride in unearthing musical gems.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.
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 yet be fully alive.
I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.