Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?
The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.
I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better.
