Bob Altemeyer Quotes
Once dogmatism turns out the lights, you might as well close up shop as a civilization and pull up the covers as a sentient life form. You get nowhere with unquestioning certainty. It's thinking with your mind wide shut.Bob Altemeyer
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
Garrett Neff -
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
Abbey Clancy -
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
Rachel Shelley -
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume -
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
Larry Wilcox -
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
Gary McCord -
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone -
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde -
A laugh is a terrible weapon.
Kate O'Brien -
Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
Nate Diaz -
Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.
Fleur East
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I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
Wadada Leo Smith -
The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
Ian Somerhalder -
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie -
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
Taylor Swift -
Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
Karen Kain -
There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.
Felicity Kendal
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People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.
Eli Broad -
I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
Eleanor Mondale -
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
James Surowiecki -
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.
Ernest Shackleton -
I'm basically always writing. Why wouldn't I? I love it.
Kelsea Ballerini -
Once dogmatism turns out the lights, you might as well close up shop as a civilization and pull up the covers as a sentient life form. You get nowhere with unquestioning certainty. It's thinking with your mind wide shut.
Bob Altemeyer