Bob Gibson Quotes
A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
Quotes to Explore
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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I'm learning every day.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
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It would be more weird if people didn't stare at me or shout at me.
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I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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At any time of day, hundreds of different versions of Facebook are running on the Internet - with a changed color here, a moved button there - and the user response to each variation is measured. And the same is done with advertising.
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But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
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A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
