Bob Newhart Quotes

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Women
  • Guns

• We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Want
  • Talk

• Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Changes

• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Long
  • German

• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Future
  • Injustice

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Better
  • Losing

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Movie
  • Saying

• There's not too many rich black people in this world.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • People
  • Just
  • Leaders

• I feel like in my life, when I've gone through during some traumatic things, I go so inward and I shut the world out and I become - I don't want to use the word selfish because it's hard circumstances, but when I go through hard stuff, it's difficult for me to communicate with other people, let alone stand up for other people's rights.

  

  Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra
  • People
  • World
  • Difficult

• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Good

• Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Support

• You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,You give away yourself,You don't take care of yourself, you don't love yourself;Great agony always compels you,The agony of an overflowing barn, an overabundant heart;But no one thanks you any longer …

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Sacrifice

• I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People