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.
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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.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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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.
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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.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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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.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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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.
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The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion.
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It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.
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The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
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The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
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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.
