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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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
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The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.
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The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street.
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Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.
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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.
