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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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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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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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.
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I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
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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.
