Bob Walker Quotes
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
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Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
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He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou… (“Footnote to All Prayers”) Lewis proceeds to acknowledge that when he says the Name of God, his best thoughts are mere fancies and symbols, which he knows “cannot be the thing thou art.” Then with postmodern sensitivity, Lewis ponders the inadequacy of human language and perspective: And all men are idolators, crying unheard To a deaf idol, if Thou take them at their word. Even as we pray, then, we must count on God to take our misguided arrows and magnetize them toward their goal. He concludes: Take not, oh Lord, our literal sense. Lord, in Thy great, Unbroken speech our limping metaphor translate.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.
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Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.
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At every level of his short NBA career, he's responded, and I think he'll respond in the playoffs. But it's not going to be easy. No matter how great those guys are, it's not easy the first time.
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We're really in limbo. Frustrated is the best word I can come up with.
