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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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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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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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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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 think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.
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A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
