Bobby Short Quotes
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
Quotes to Explore
-
No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
-
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
-
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
-
I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
-
I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
-
Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
-
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
-
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
-
Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
-
Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
-
When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
-
I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
-
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
-
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
-
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
-
It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
-
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
-
Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
-
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
-
I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.
-
Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.
-
I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.
-
There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.
-
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
