Bob Edwards Quotes

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

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• I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

  

  Halsey
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Harmony

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Ignore

• Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Decision

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Style
  • Smart
  • Humor

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Cutting
  • Cooking

• L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Guilty
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Revolution
  • Leader
  • Destined

• I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Loved

• I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Myself

• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

  

  Sallust
  • Identity
  • Friendship
  • Likes

• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Night
  • Romantic

• There's been a progression in my sound.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Sound
  • Been
  • Progression

• About why he named his daughter True and son Ocean I want those names to be their destiny, for my daughter to be honest and my son to be expansive. I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing. … being called Forest helped me find my identity.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Why
  • True
  • Growing

• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Today
  • Words

• Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.

  

  Jeremy Robinson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Why

• 'Don’t tell me you aren’t the slightest bit curious, Norquinco.''I hope you burn in hell, Sky Haussmann.''I’ll take that as a yes.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Hope
  • Sky

• In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.

  

  Jefferson Han
  • Light

• I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • House

• Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

  

  Bob Edwards