#bette

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. ↗

— Carla Bley

#art #band #better #blues #could

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#anyone #better #gun #i #knew

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#better #children #communities #demonstrate #drop

I'm not better when I force shots. I'm going to take them as they come. They are really sagging in there, trying to take me out of the game. It's my job to find guys. I want to be aggressive and take my shots, but I can't force them. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#better #come #find #force #game

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#cabinet #construction #endeavor #history #neither

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#better #climbing #ethical #even #had

Man should be ever better than he seems. ↗

— Aubrey de Vere

#ever #man #seems #should #than

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#actor #actress #better #different #everybody

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ↗

— William Blackstone

#escape #guilty #innocent #suffer #ten

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#done #fathers #larger #most #neighbors