Bob Stoops Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I am in and out of the wall.
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I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
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We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you.
