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Bob Edwards Quotes

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

Bob Edwards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1947

Topics

River Go New Right Up Kentucky

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Always Convenience Speaking Devices

My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Amiri Baraka

Great People Stupid Thought America

Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he's flawed. Superman's flaw is kryptonite, and that's it. He can make time go backwards, for God's sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there's a bit of humanity there.

Rupert Friend

God Time Interesting Humanity Go

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

Shadow World Vanity Play Nothing

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

Joshua Lederberg

School High School Trying Understand

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Jose Saramago

Construction Fashion Human Always

It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.

Deborah Tannen

Women Children Parents Writing Count

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

Bozoma Saint John

Work Good Myself Experience I Am Me

I am happy my films have done well in Kerala.

Allu Arjun

I Am Happy I Am Happy Done Well Am

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

Arthur Smith

Me World Person Important Debt

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

William Greider

Values Done Will Others Everyone

If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

Sydney Pollack

Patience Culture Empathy You Desire