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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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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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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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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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.
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An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.
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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.
