Bob Newhart Quotes
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.
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Often you have to rely on your intuition.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
