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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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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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
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Sometimes pars are hard.
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Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
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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.
