Bobby Riggs Quotes
I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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To a visitor who described himself as a seeker after Truth the Master said, 'If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.' 'I know. An overwhelming passion for it.' 'No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.'
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I still remember when I was 18 and my life was completely different. I was in my apartment, and I got the call that I got Stiles for this pilot. I was just jumping around with my roommates, freaking out. It's crazy to think about.
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I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
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My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.
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It was tragic every single time my mom told me we were moving. I would always envy my friends who had grown up in the same house their entire life, and they had markings on the wall of 'me at five years old' and all that. It made me so sad. I wished I'd had that.
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I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.
