Bob Stoops Quotes
Nobody promises you anything. We've had a lot to deal with when you look at the entire season and all that's happened in a short amount of time. You do the best you can to fight through it and you keep working.
 
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	Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.   
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	I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.   
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	My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.   
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	The brain abhors discrepancies.   
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	To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.   
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	Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.   
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	A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.   
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	I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.   
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	Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.   
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	In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.   
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	Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.   
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	How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.   
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	When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.   
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	I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.   
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	I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.   
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	I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.   
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	It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.   
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	I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'   
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	There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.   
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	Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.   
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	Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.   
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	Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.   
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	I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.   
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	Nobody promises you anything. We've had a lot to deal with when you look at the entire season and all that's happened in a short amount of time. You do the best you can to fight through it and you keep working.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					