Bob Newhart Quotes
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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We went from losses to goods seized by creditors, while continuing to organize surrealist or abstract exhibitions…
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Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.
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A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
