Bob Riley Quotes
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
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I have great Indian genes! You know, I'm lazy. I want to take advantage of the fact that I have a great metabolism. When I start getting fat, I'll work on it! I like food, and I don't like the gym, and as long as I look like this without doing anything, why bother?
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
