Bob Edwards Quotes

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Time
  • Love
  • Day

• In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Artist
  • Favorite
  • Gucci

• What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Community

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Experience
  • Black

• I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Want
  • Travel

• I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Fanatic

• I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Good
  • Question
  • Politics

• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happiness
  • Animal
  • Equality

• I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Change
  • Decision
  • Honor

• The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Great
  • Marriage
  • Successful

• The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Help

• I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

  

  Madeleine Albright

• Say the most personal thing, say it, nothing else matters, don’t be ashamed, the generalities can be found in the newspaper.

  

  Elias Canetti

• Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Women
  • Party
  • Husband

• Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

  

  Selah Louise Marley
  • Hard
  • Emotions
  • Express

• Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

  

  David Hockney

• I was in Los Angeles prepping my episode of 'Dollhouse' when the final 'Planetary' hit the stands in October. Yeah, it was surreal. One chapter closing, another opening.

  

  John Cassaday
  • October

• Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Space
  • First
  • Back

• Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Career
  • Personality

• With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

  

  Bob Edwards