Bob Shacochis Quotes

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

Bob Shacochis

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• Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Look

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Art
  • You
  • Personal

• I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Work
  • Think
  • Yourself

• I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Me
  • Person
  • Gun

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Important
  • Funny

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Camera
  • Treat

• The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Cooperation

• I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Play
  • Year

• It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Simple
  • Sex

• Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • History

• In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

  

  Neil Gershenfeld
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

  

  Bob Shacochis
  • World
  • Writing
  • American