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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You've got your 'X-Files' and now 'Lost,' which is arguably science fiction, though one could say it's something else.
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At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
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One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.
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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
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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.
