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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People who can actually challenge me and push me and almost push me to breaking point and extract a performance out of me, I really enjoy that.
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Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.
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As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.
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Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.
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As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.
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We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you.
