Bob Newhart Quotes

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

Bob Newhart

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I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

Jim Sullivan

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No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Jim Valvano

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Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

Johannes Heesters

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A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Matthew Perry

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I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Maura Tierney

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If I can talk, I can sing.

John Raitt

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I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

Michael Palin

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I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Joseph Barbera

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Everybody at school knew who I was because I'm just a really friendly person.

Corbin Bleu

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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.

Bobby Knight

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As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

Anthony Bourdain

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