Bob Beckel Quotes
Liberal arts colleges have traditionally provided a forum for debating ideas. Avoiding controversy and 'playing it safe' by not inviting - or disinviting - speakers with 'controversial' views stifles debate.
Quotes to Explore
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
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We need to encourage young women to run for office and become civic leaders in their own communities.
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We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.
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Liberal arts colleges have traditionally provided a forum for debating ideas. Avoiding controversy and 'playing it safe' by not inviting - or disinviting - speakers with 'controversial' views stifles debate.
