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Bob Black Quotes

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 4, 1951

Topics

Work Play Always Might Forced

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

Design Furniture Everyday Shape Our

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stephen Hopkins

Birthday Waiting People Me Night

Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.

Music Growing Up Growing Boring Up

Everybody likes to win.

Win Everybody Likes

Unless we get serious about addressing Iran's regional ambitions in places like Syria, then our allies are never going to be confident that we have a strategy for the region.

Confident Strategy Serious Never Get

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Martin Van Creveld

History Best Struggle War Suicide

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

Change Heart People Ideas Think You

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

Power Time Gun Washington Become

There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.

Life Time Me Moving Singing Someone

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

Life Music My Life Soundtrack Movie

I'm a journeyman actor.

Actor Journeyman

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

Son You Sometimes See Things Tour

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