Bob Wickman Quotes
It may sound bad, but you've got to experience everything before you can win. Last year was a huge learning experience for this ballclub.
Quotes to Explore
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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I'm a chocolate guy.
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
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I want to emphasize that I am not opposed to pipelines. We already have hundreds of them in our state. I am opposed to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline route because it is directly over the Ogallala Aquifer.
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We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of the journalist pigs evoked by Spitting Image puppets.
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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.
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We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.
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We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.
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It may sound bad, but you've got to experience everything before you can win. Last year was a huge learning experience for this ballclub.
