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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Well, I like shopping.
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I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
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Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.
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I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
