Bob Beckel Quotes
We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
Quotes to Explore
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I am not honest.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
