Bob Black Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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I don't need to have someone tell me what I'm going to be entertained by.
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Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
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Psychiatry, as a subspecialty of medicine, aspires to define mental illness as precisely as, let’s say, cancer of the pancreas, or streptococcal infection of the lungs. However, given the complexity of mind, brain, and human attachment systems, we have not come even close to achieving that sort of precision. Understanding what is “wrong” with people currently is more a question of the mind-set of the practitioner (and of what insurance companies will pay for) than of verifiable, objective facts.
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
