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Bob Riley Quotes

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american

Topics

Hero Create Hard Heroes Hard Times

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

Doing Trying Human Just Somebody

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

Person Alive Being Who Like

I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

World Think Feel Know Sometimes Kid

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

Community Impossible Matters Dreaming

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

Music Chance Rock Star Escape Rock

Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.

Best Past Child Parents College

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

Time Think Better Country Place

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

I Am Engineering Bachelor Master

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Paris Island Through South Carolina

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

More Write Deadline Year-Round Much

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Philip Zimbardo

Change Hero Sacrifice Step People

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Skin Years Pretty Been Thick Having

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