Bob Newhart Quotes
People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
Quotes to Explore
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
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Sometimes your kids give you that shove out the door to do things that you need. Teenagers are good that way; they keep you in the loop.
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There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
