James Harvey Robinson Quotes
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
Quotes to Explore
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.
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When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge.
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The perfect winter's night for me would be with all the family together. As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes harder to get everybody together at once.
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
