Bob Parsons Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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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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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize how wonderful you are, doesnt mean you shine any less.
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People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.
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Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.
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I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you've got to get out there and make it happen yourself.
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When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.
