Bob Thaves Quotes
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
