Bob Quotes - Page 24

• Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

  Daryl Hall

  Green, Matter, Als

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Simple, Men, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

  Erica Jong

  Children, Government, Self

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• Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, School, Boys

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.172, Library of America

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• Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.'

  Edward Teller

  Knowing, Atmosphere, Causes

  "Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics". Book by Edward Teller and Judith L. Shoolery, 2001.

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• Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

  Chris Blackwell

  Radio, Way, Marley

  Interview With Hooman Majd, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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• Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid."

  Ezra Furman

  Kids, Blonde, Hey

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically the first song in the book was "Absolutely Sweet Marie." When I heard it, it was like "Oh, there is something going on here. It's not like my parents' boring music that I don't care about. This is totally electrifying."

  Ezra Furman

  Mom, Song, Sweet

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

  Benjamin

  Years, Soul, World

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• My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, League

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• I notice a lot of hitters fraternize with pitchers. I see guys laughing and giggling before the game. These are the same pitchers who are trying to beat them. I've never seen Roger Clemens talking to hitters before the game. Bob Gibson was the same way. Man, I don't even see (Greg) Maddux playing golf with hitters.

  Albert Belle

  Golf, Men, Talking

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• I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?

  Dave Barry

  God, Vacation, Stupidity

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• I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

  Matisyahu

  Song, Thinking, Marley

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• When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

  Michael Franti

  Jamaica, Tourists, Marley

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• Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.

  Gil Evans

  Inspiration, Party, Artist

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• I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

  Ronnie Wood

  Art, Thinking, Numbers

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• There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

  Del Shannon

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

  Clive Davis

  Views, Two, America

  "Clive Davis in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 07, 2013.

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• The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

  Jay Leno

  War, Hero, Mean

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• My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Criminals, Opponents, Investigation

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• I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Mannerisms

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• Well, it speaks to the character of the players more than anything. Bob Myers and his staff have done an incredible job of putting together this roster. I was well aware of the versatility that the roster had, but as I got to know the players I realized they had what it took spiritually, emotionally. They were united. They wanted to win. They were close.

  Steve Kerr

  Jobs, Character, Winning

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Character, Interesting

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• My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

  Lil' Mama

  Cutting, Who I Am, The End Of The Day

  "Lil Mama On Her Style Evolution; Nicki Minaj & Being A Curse-Free Rapper". Interview with Tray Hova, www.vibe.com. June 15, 2011.

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• All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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