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

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• 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

• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• 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

• I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Drama

• Once a week i have to do my radio show, 'A State of Trance', usually on Wednesday night. I try to go running at least three times a week and spend at least a day without turning my laptop on and spend it with my wife and daughter.

  

  Armin van Buuren
  • Night
  • Running
  • Wife

• I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.

  

  John Boyega

• If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

  

  Bud Grant
  • May

• I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

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

  

  Bob Edwards
  • Grandmother