Bob Mayer Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.
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All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
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Writing is a lonely profession.
