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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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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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.
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We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.
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I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.
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So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
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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.