Bob Newhart Quotes
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.
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When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.
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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
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I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
