James Bobin Quotes
I've always liked the Muppets. I watched 'The Muppet Show' in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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My mother is still battling alcoholism.
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I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.
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If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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Precognition or self-deception?
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
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Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
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Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.
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A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.
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Go into the garden and get me a pumpkin.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I'm the fastest man in mixed martial arts.
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I've always liked the Muppets. I watched 'The Muppet Show' in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.
