Bob Balaban Quotes

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

Bob Balaban

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• As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

  

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• I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.

  

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• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

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• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

  

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• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

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• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  

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• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

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• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

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• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

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• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

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• I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

  

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• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  

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• Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

  

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• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

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• I don't do office work at home.

  

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• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  

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• How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

  

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• When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

  

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• Obviously, it's not a performance that we're proud of. But nobody's going in the tank, or giving up. We're going to come out next week and have a lot of our problems fixed.

  

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• When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.

  

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• I expect to work hard, earn the respect of my teammates and hopefully I can start.

  

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• I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • Money