Bob Newhart Quotes
I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
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I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?
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Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
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Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.
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We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."
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A lot of people have a belief system that is strictly based on religious dogma.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
