Bob Stoops Quotes
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.
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I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
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We need to make something of this week.
