Bobby Darin Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
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You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.
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My entire life has been a lie.
