Bob Newhart Quotes

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

Bob Newhart

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• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

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• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

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• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

  

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• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

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• I like things simple.

  

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• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

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• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

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• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

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  • People
  • Me
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• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

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  • Wanted
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• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

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  • Heart
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  • Suffering

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

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  • Never
  • Just
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• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

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• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

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• Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

  

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• This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river or a beach; you have small channels, canals, towns, levees. Everything here is complicated . . . and it's not a simple environment to assess damage in.

  

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• The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.

  

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• To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

  

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• Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.

  

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• I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Mother
  • Girl