Bob McNair Quotes
The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I've learned never say never.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
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Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
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Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.
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You've heard me say it a million times just from me being in here so long. You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't have any heart, you're going to struggle as a player, and if the team doesn't have the heart, then the team is going to struggle.
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The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
