Bob Proctor Quotes
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
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What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.
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I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.
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I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.
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Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.
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As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.
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You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway.
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
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Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.
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I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire life.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
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The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.
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Are your thoughts empowering or limiting?
