Bob Newhart Quotes
I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.
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I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
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It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.
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I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.
