Bill Cobbs Quotes
Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
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I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.
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Death,-a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
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Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.
