Bob Balaban Quotes
People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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Boys never liked me at school. They made fun of me 'cos I had dark skin.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
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Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
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Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
