Bobby Batelli:
CLASS OF 1974
Franklin Delano Roosevelt High SchoolClass of 1974
Brooklyn, NY
Bobby's Story
Bobby is from Brooklyn, New York. Bobby's schools include Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School. Bobby later attended St. Francis College (Management) .
Music Bobby likes includes The Charlie Daniels Band, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty. Books Bobby likes include The Hobbit, Tuesdays with Morrie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Movies Bobby likes include The Graduate, Parenthood, It's a Wonderful Life. TV shows Bobby likes include History, Seinfeld.
One of Bobby's favorite quotes is:""I just want to dip my beek"
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing achieved."
“From the conditions of frontier life came [American] intellectual traits of profound importance . . . coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy, that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil. These, are the traits of the frontier”...Jackson Turner, Historian
That's all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. ... Clemenza from the Godfather
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns
"The curious task of e...Expand for more
conomics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." Friedrich Hayek, Economist
"Greed is good." ... Gordon Gekko from the movie, Wall Street
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
"Laws are like sausages, it's better not to see them being made." Bismark
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end"
R. J. Wiedemann, Lt. Col., USMC (Ret
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." Odgen Nash
"And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland from the movie Cast Away.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." ...Yogi Berra
"“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
Winston Churchill".
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