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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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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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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I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
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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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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
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Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression - arriving at a finish of two digits - a goal attained, a dénouement reached.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.
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For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.
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We had an open house when we launched the book and 900 people passed through in the first four hours.
