Bob Edwards Quotes
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
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There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.
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A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy... that's what powers up my batteries. That's the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That's my rocket fuel, I suppose.
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I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
