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bobby

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1. bobby - Noun

2. Bobby - Proper noun

Meaning

A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. Dan Quayle

What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world. Barack Obama

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. Charles Evers

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. David Talbot

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus. Mandy Patinkin

Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn't. Ralph Bakshi

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