Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
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The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success
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They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies! But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever, For in thee we live and move and have our being
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It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.
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Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.
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Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.
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The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.
