Bob Coy Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Although an important amount of repairs and conservation works have been carried out right from the British period in India these have not compromised to the original qualities of the buildings.
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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
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They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!
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It's hard when people die, but there's something about when people die suddenly.
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What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.
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Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.
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God and God alone deserves all the credit for the good that takes place in our lives.
