Bob Monkhouse Quotes
I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Bling is good.
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The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.
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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
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When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
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I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses.
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Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
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I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.
