Bob Thaves Quotes
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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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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.
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When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
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I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
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It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
