James Bobin Quotes
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
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My general taste is towards the melancholy.
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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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When a parent denies a child its 'parent time,' that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
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Ill-timed admiration is enough to enrage a saint.
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
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I'm a fairly worldly guy.
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I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
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We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.
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'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.
