Bob McDonnell Quotes
I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.
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I want to love life.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the rules of conversation in three countries. Paradoxically, these rules are almost always unspoken.
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I love Denver.
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I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
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I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.
