David Robinson Quotes
It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I'm very candid.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we're running.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.
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When you're watching a Hitchcock movie, you, for most of the movie, are playing the guessing game. What's the endgame? What's the plot? How are these people involved? It's the best way to tell the story, and as a viewer, that's what you want to experience.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
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Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
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It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.
