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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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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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
