Bob Coy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
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Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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God and God alone deserves all the credit for the good that takes place in our lives.
