Bob Greene Quotes
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.
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I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it.
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What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?
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If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
