Bob Shacochis Quotes
Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
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Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.
