Bob Schieffer Quotes
If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
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Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.
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Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
