Bob Wickman Quotes
I get asked a lot about being their third choice, but I was the one who chose to make it harder on myself by wanting just a one-year deal. There were some owners with wide eyes when I told them that. I wanted it that way because, if I got hurt, I could just walk off and go home.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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What you see is what you get.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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I would love to go back to Broadway.
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People will come back and influence their communities to get excited about space. Space funding will increase because people will see the benefit it has to the way people relate to the world, the way people relate to problems, and the way people view themselves.
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The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
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Plan B is a plan to fail. You should always give 110% to what you plan to do for plan A.
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To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.
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Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.
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I get asked a lot about being their third choice, but I was the one who chose to make it harder on myself by wanting just a one-year deal. There were some owners with wide eyes when I told them that. I wanted it that way because, if I got hurt, I could just walk off and go home.
