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Bob Beckel Quotes

Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 15, 1948

Topics

Racism Voting America Violence White

I am attracted to dumb people.

I Am People Dumb Attracted Am

I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Good God Faith Hope People Seed

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

People Saying Think Thinking Friends

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Future Past Think You Comfort Young

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham

Work Poetry Dinner Night Walking

I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.

Lost Legs Lucky Always Because Been

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

John Polkinghorne

Life World Year Earth Evolution

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

New Things Doing New Done Try Like

With ballet, you're really focused on the inner thigh and butt and just lifting and lengthening everything, including your arms. You're not using weights, but holding up the weight of your own arms is a challenge.

Mary Helen Bowers

Challenge You Focused Butt Up Own

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.

Preparation Enough You Tell Big

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

Joshua Ostrander

Work Ideas Shine Looking Back Doing

At around 50 employees, you get to the point where you can't see what's going on all the time. So you start to have weekly check-ins, and you have days that go by without knowing exactly what's going on.

Time Start Employees You Go Knowing

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