Bob Melvin Quotes

They understand we're in a precarious position right now as far as trying to get some other guys in some games and get a look at them yet still go out there and try to be as competitive as you can.

Bob Melvin

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• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Heart
  • May

• I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • World
  • School
  • Strong

• I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Soviet
  • FBI
  • July

• I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Drama
  • Skills
  • Group

• I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Running
  • Morning
  • Look

• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Years
  • Chinese

• I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

  

  Nelly
  • Good
  • Work
  • Sometimes

• He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

  

  Ludwig Tieck
  • Wisdom
  • Stupid
  • Act

• In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Success
  • Independent
  • Economy

• I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Pride
  • Organization

• I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Believe
  • My Life

• I remember being in Dublin in a café and seeing him [Jack Gleeson] two or three years ago, and he came in - Joffrey[from the Game of Thrones] came in - and I remember being so star-struck. I don't like famous people and I don't really get star-struck. But I remember seeing him and being so impressed that he was walking around. So I really like Joffrey.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Game

• Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Position
  • Given
  • Key

• They understand we're in a precarious position right now as far as trying to get some other guys in some games and get a look at them yet still go out there and try to be as competitive as you can.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Games
  • Position
  • Competitive