Bob Newhart Quotes

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Bob Newhart

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I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

Jim Elliot

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I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

Mel Torme

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The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

Michael Mandelbaum

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Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.

Javier Camara

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'Punch-Drunk Love' is my favorite movie.

Domhnall Gleeson

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A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.

Diane Warren

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If you do not have the team behind you, then you can't do things on your own. It all depends on the team.

Diego Costa

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While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

Boyle Roche

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I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

Alma Guillermoprieto

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