Bob Beamon Quotes
When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.
Quotes to Explore
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
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Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
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We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
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Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.
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Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.
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If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then...selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.
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When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.
