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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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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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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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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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Nothing's better than a picnic.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.
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I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
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The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.
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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.
