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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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
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So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.
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Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?
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Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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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.
