Bob Stokes Quotes
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
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Black women's lives have never been shown any value in America.
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During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.
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Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?
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My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
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Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.
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I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.
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Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
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Most saints live to regret their career choice.
