Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.
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The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.
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When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.
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When you truly understand one thing—a hawk, a juniper tree, a rock—you will begin to understand everything.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
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All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.
