Bob Newhart Quotes
I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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I have a great office.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
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I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.
