Bob McNair Quotes

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

Bob McNair

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• I get depressed at airports.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Get
  • Depressed

• I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Career
  • Cool

• I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Think

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Character
  • Free
  • Legal

• The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Air

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Music
  • God

• I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • You
  • Need

• I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Living

• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Myself
  • Language
  • Learn

• It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Love
  • Night
  • Training

• In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you're just considered to be fluff.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Talk

• Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • Why
  • Reading

• I work out sort of moderately.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Out

• When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Principles
  • Universal
  • Participation

• When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Live
  • Night
  • Senior

• We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

  

  Bob McNair