Bob Holden Quotes

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

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• I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Change
  • Most

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • May
  • Ideas
  • Enough

• I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Me
  • Racism

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • You
  • Red
  • Saying

• I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Part

• There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Study
  • Natural Disasters

• I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Down
  • Old

• The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • System
  • Safe

• I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Work
  • Style

• I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Saying
  • Risks

• Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.

  

  Edmund White
  • History
  • Gay
  • Changes

• With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Words

• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • City
  • Cat

• I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Way
  • Fear

• Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Kill
  • Embrace
  • Bound

• Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

  

  Bob Holden