Bob Newhart Quotes

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

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• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

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• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

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• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

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• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

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• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

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• President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.

  

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• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

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• I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.

  

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• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

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• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

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• You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

  

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• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

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• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

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• I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.

  

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• Anywhere I go, if I go out, I have to keep my phone out. I don't try to be rude. If I turn it around, I have to check it every 5 minutes.

  

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• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
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• Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

  

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• For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Children