Bob Cousy Quotes
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I don't care about revenues.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
