Bob Newhart Quotes
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I respect the Premier League.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.
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If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.
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Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
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I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.
