Bob Balaban Quotes

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Bob Balaban

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• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Couple
  • Got

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Me
  • Discovering
  • Incredibly

• Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Technology

• I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • New York

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Effort
  • Choose

• Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Slavery

• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Know
  • Evidence

• I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Believe
  • More
  • Diplomacy

• Hearing the blues changed my life.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blues

• Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • God
  • Fall

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Military
  • Interest

• How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

  

  Adin Ballou
  • Righteousness
  • Wickedness
  • Butchery

• It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

  

  Nancy Spain
  • Different
  • Village
  • Way Of Life

• I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

  

  Bob Balaban