Bob Weir Quotes
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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Don't limit your audience.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
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And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn't so cool. I'm sure I've turned to the subject to please him, though I think he might consider some of my arguments a little flamethrowing for his tastes.
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I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.
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My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.
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I want to work to help all those working a lifetime to be confident they will have a secure and dignified retirement.
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It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.
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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
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My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.
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Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather make the public good argument, which is not just about innovation or nurturing new companies that will add to the nation's GDP, it's actually about creating a democratic public sphere.
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Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.
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We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.
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I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.
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The bulk of my input comes from my peers.
