Bob Thomason Quotes
Wow, they are athletic, disciplined and well-coached. That's not a very good combination. They're obviously tested. If you can beat North Carolina one day and almost beat Duke the next, you're obviously very, very good.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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I think we realized what was at stake.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
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Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.
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It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security.
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We know businesses can’t compete without reliable infrastructure.
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.
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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
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The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.
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If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.
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Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.
