Bob Newhart Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
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May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?
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It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
