Bob Walker Quotes
We had an open house when we launched the book and 900 people passed through in the first four hours.
Quotes to Explore
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.
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What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.
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I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed.
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By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.
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We had an open house when we launched the book and 900 people passed through in the first four hours.
