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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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
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In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
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A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
