Bob Keeshan Quotes
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to the supermarket to buy.
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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
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One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.