Bob Marshall Quotes
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
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For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities.
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You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.
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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
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I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.
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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.
