Bob Beckel Quotes

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

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• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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• The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Family
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• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
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• Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
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  • Beautiful

• I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
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• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

  

  Samuel Barber
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• Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

  

  Jackie Speier
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• If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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• Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

  

  Anita Borg
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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  

  Barry McGuire
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• I'd love to visit South America, especially Argentina, as I'm a winemaker myself. They do a fantastic malbec, so it would be a dream to sample their grapes. New Zealand would be great, too. I'm a golfer, so it would combine both my loves.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
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• I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
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• I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

  

  Bob Beckel
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  • Family
  • Father