Bob Parsons Quotes
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
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Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.
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An irresistible footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.
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Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.
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Security is for cadavers.
