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.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• Don't limit your audience.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Audience
  • Limit
  • Your

• 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.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Up
  • Help
  • Community

• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Free
  • Words
  • Praise

• 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.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Meaning

• 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.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Death
  • Small

• A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Beautiful

• Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • May
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Dad
  • Cool

• I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

  

  Frank Grillo
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • God
  • Believe
  • Nature

• Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Up
  • Time

• 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.

  

  David Lee
  • Control
  • Cool
  • Blue

• I want to work to help all those working a lifetime to be confident they will have a secure and dignified retirement.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Work
  • Help
  • Retirement

• 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.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Nature
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Paz Vega
  • Work
  • Family
  • House

• The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Fans
  • Awards
  • Cake

• Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Narrative

• No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subject to such a mass attack as the Bible? With such venom and skepticism? With such thoroughness and erudition? Upon every chapter, line and tenet?

  

  Bernard Ramm
  • Bible
  • Attack
  • Mass

• I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Borders
  • Palestine
  • Israeli

• The bulk of my input comes from my peers.

  

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