Bob Herbert Quotes

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration.

Bob Herbert

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• I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

  

  T-Pain
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• I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

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• I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
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• The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Today
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• Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • World
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• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Earth
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• Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
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• But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Know
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• We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Traveled
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• Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Creativity
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• The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • California
  • Racist
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• If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Should
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• I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

  

  George Jung
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• Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

  

  David Plotz
  • Political
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  • Running

• If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

  

  Michael Andretti
  • Racing
  • Wheels
  • Carts

• We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration.

  

  Bob Herbert
  • Pretend
  • Racist
  • Integration