Bob Quotes - Page 4

• The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop music, pop music of any kind, doesn't need the Nobel committee to damn it with the faint praise of such an award to its sole chosen representative.

  David Bennun

  Awards, Needs, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• ""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Attitude, Humorous

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green (1982). “Uncollected stories”, Harvill Secker

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• The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

  Dick Cavett

  Strong, Night, Dating

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• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

  Toby Jones

  Years, Flu, Tests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

  Kamala Harris

  Thinking, Pieces, Marley

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• I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

  Guy Fieri

  Men, Thinking, Games

  "Guy Fieri on Why He Was Born to Host Minute to Win It". Interview with Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. March 13, 2010.

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• When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

  Waylon Jennings

  Kings, Texas, Musical

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• What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Song, Writing, Sound

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• You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.

  Jon Fishman

  People, Messages, Opinion

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• When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

  Patti Smith

  Teenager, My Boyfriend, Trouble

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

  Melanie Fiona

  Artist, Rocks, What Matters

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• The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

  Jenna Elfman

  Memorable, Moments, Playing Drums

  TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

  Charlie Daniels

  Taken, Nashville, Long

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• I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

  Pete Coors

  Winning, Race, Wife

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• I can't stand Bob Dylan.

  Charlotte Church

  Dylan, I Can

  "Voice of experience" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2005.

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• There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

  Peter Berg

  Real, Book, Games

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• Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

  Bob Barker

  Country, Decision, Finals

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

  Pierre Salinger

  Brother, People, Needs

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• My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

  Alexa Chung

  Dad, Cutting, Hair

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

  John C. McGinley

  Guy, Genes, Wanted

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• I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

  Buck Owens

  School, Littles, Influence

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• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  Iris DeMent

  Cash, Dylan, Haggard

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

  Black Francis

  Age, Musician, Records

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• Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Song, Years, Tvs

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

  Edward Klein

  People, Mind, Want

  "'Kennedy Curse' author on JFK Jr". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2003.

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