Bobby Heenan Quotes
I insulted people. I had to - they deserved it. They didn't have any talent. They stunk. They were horrible! But it made it for a fun show.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.
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I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.
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The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I insulted people. I had to - they deserved it. They didn't have any talent. They stunk. They were horrible! But it made it for a fun show.
