Bob Nelson Quotes
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Quotes to Explore
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
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We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
