Bobby H. Barbee, Sr. Quotes
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
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The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
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I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.
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The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
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Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.
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The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
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I would fain die a dry death.
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Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!
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This is the Free Market Revolution: It is the idea that economic freedom can flourish only in an America that celebrates selfishness—the individual’s pursuit of his rational, long-term self-interest—as a virtue.
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It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.
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I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.
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Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.
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You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
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The only thing they recognize is a buffet.
