Bob Edwards Quotes

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

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• The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Biggest

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

  

  Karen Black
  • Books
  • Keep
  • Some

• I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Like
  • Him
  • Smoke

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Soul
  • Dream

• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Tax

• I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Fear
  • Control

• He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Faith
  • Advice
  • Sound

• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Earth

• Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Hand
  • Need
  • Dignity

• Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Night
  • Thoughts
  • Paris

• I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Running

• It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • True

• To enable large U.S. banks to support their clients better, the Volcker rule should be clarified.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Support

• Yarn, patterns, and needle sizes have come such a long way since your grandmother's afghans. Creatively, there is just so much to get into, so much to play with. It's an amazing way to turn inward and get off your phone.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Long
  • Amazing
  • Grandmother

• I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

  

  Bob Edwards
  • Grandmother