Bob Quotes

• If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

  Bob Dole

  Children, Thinking, Bills

  "New York" Magazine‎, April 29, 1996.

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• Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Names, Marley

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Dylan

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• You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

  Burton Cummings

  Years, Dylan, Thousand

  "Canada Inside Out". Book by David Olive, 2012.

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• If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Answers, Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.34, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

  Bob Dylan

  Jesus, Follow Me, Said

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• My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

  John F. Kennedy

  Brother, Dad, Father

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Wicked, Either Or

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• Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

  David Toop

  Book, Sound, Poet

  Source: thequietus.com

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• And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

  Michael Stipe

  Way, Revolution, Dylan

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• The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

  Dennis Miller

  Reading, Tunnels, Wind

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.173, Crown Forum

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• On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new tax plan will rate a footnote in the history books and this may have a whole chapter in itself.

  Richard E. Berendzen

  Book, August, Years

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• Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

  Mike Love

  Love, Summer, Islands

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• Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Genius, Dylan

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Fans, Female

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down and did an interview with. And, he said that it was one of his highlights, and it was one of my highlights. And, I was very glad to talk with Bob. I found out that he was a good fan of mine, and that tickled me.

  Ralph Stanley

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The media cannot come separate [Donald] Trump from his supporters. Only Trump can do that. They're trying, they're gonna keep trying because they think they can. They did it with [George W.]Bush. They did it with [Mitt] Romney. They did it with [John] McCain. They did it with Bob Dole.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Writing, Singers

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

  Josh Quittner

  Reading, Design, Looks

  "Computers & Technology" by Joshua Quittner, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 1995.

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• I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.

  Bette Midler

  Sex, Couple, Cadillacs

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• I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and "Hard Rain," people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis - probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.

  Cass Sunstein

  Song, Rain, Believe

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Poet, Dylan

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Art, Thinking, Dylan

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!

  Ian Callaghan

  Player, Typical, Looks

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• During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

  Al Franken

  Evil, President, Administration

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