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 have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.
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You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.
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For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.
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I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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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.
