Bob Hicok Quotes
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!
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I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.
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There aren't always a hell of a lot of absolutely right answers out there.
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Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.
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All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror.
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You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".
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When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.
