Bob Lemon Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
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Venus and Mars are our next of kin: they are the two most Earth-like planets that we know about. They're the only two other very Earth-like planets in our solar system, meaning they orbit close to the sun; they have rocky surfaces and thin atmospheres.
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Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.
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America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
