Bob Proctor Quotes
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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When I give I give myself.
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I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.
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We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
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Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.
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The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.
