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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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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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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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.
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I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
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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.
