David Robinson Quotes
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?
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Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
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I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
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If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
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Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
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I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bit more spontaneous and went over budget, and it absolutely wrecked his head. When you look at the power and assuredness of his movies, it makes sense that he works out so much in advance.
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Preparation is everything.
