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.
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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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Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
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Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
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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.
