Bob Keeshan Quotes

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

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• Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Think
  • Intelligence
  • Her

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• If anybody was to look towards a big source of demand in future, it would be hard for them to miss India.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Future
  • Look
  • India

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Good
  • Band
  • Dance

• I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Place
  • Confusing

• If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Money
  • Future
  • Care

• Basketball is basketball.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Basketball

• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • War
  • Me

• The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Job
  • Giving
  • Thought

• I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Man
  • Day
  • End

• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Education
  • Hand

• Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Lunch
  • Magical

• Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Life

• I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mother

• I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Parents

• When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • House
  • Tea

• I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it. They will all say, to the person, it's hard. It's difficult. It comes with complexities and confusion as you're trying to go across cultures, and you don't understand, you didn't mean to offend somebody but you've offended somebody. But they will all say it just does something.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Church
  • Leader
  • Confusion

• Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world.

  

  Archie Macpherson
  • Spirit
  • Club
  • Celtic

• Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

  

  Bob Keeshan