Bob Uecker Quotes
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.
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I don't know who I can compare my style to because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I hear stuff that I like, I'll definitely gravitate to it and spin it in my own way. I'm a mixture of a lot of people, honestly, but I'm myself.
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Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
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I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it.
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I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
