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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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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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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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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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
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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.
