Bob McNair Quotes
Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.
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Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
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Potential is universal, opportunity is not.
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Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.
