Bob Balaban Quotes

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

Bob Balaban

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• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • God
  • Trying

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Just
  • Journalism

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Space
  • Ability

• Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Fall
  • Wall

• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Winning
  • Things
  • Habit

• So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Political
  • Health
  • Decision

• The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Religious

• The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.'

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Red

• I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Up
  • War
  • Father

• I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • World
  • Fault
  • I Loved

• I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • Father
  • Sister
  • Chicago