Bob Hayes Quotes
I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.
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I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.
