Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes
Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
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You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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On one side is the gigantic printing press, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.' Just as in life, success demands commitment and commitment demands a positive winning attitude. I told all the guys who came into our Cup campaign that if they were going to make the grade they needed three essential ingredients: attitude, attitude and attitude. I wanted commitment to the commitment. When they finally made the crew, some of them joked that they ought to be committed for their commitment to the commitment.
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Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.
