Bob Corker Quotes
My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I make sure I have ample sleep, so no late nights out, as sleep is so important for a healthy mind and body.
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I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and you couldn't write home and tell people, 'Look, I'm really lonely,' because you'd realize how much those letters were going to matter, that you needed to put good news or uplifting news into them.
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Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
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Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.
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My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.
