Bob Newhart Quotes
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
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I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
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It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
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You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.
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An only child alone and wildA cabinet maker's son.His hands were meant for different workAnd his heart was known to none -He left his home and went his lone and solitary wayAnd he gave to me a gift I knowI never can repay.
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
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Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.
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I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
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I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.
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I would argue that we are in the middle of the biggest cable-news bull market that we have seen in some time. Clearly outside of any war that has taken an ongoing story that has taken several weeks at a time. It's anyone's guess as to when it ends, if it ever does. And I think all of that is remarkable. No one predicted it.
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The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.
