David Robinson Quotes
Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I get bored easily.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I am a journalist.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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'That’s another thing about emperors-and regents,' Gareth said. 'They aren’t very fond of changes, even if the changes are for the better.'
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I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.
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No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'
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But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
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I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
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Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities.
