Bob Beauprez Quotes
A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
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A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
