Bob Porter Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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My forte is awkwardness.
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In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.
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I'm not really a computer guy. It's like recess. I'd rather be outside getting dirty in the sandbox.
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
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There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.
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Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
