Bob Taft Quotes
Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.
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Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
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Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
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The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.
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Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
