James Harvey Robinson Quotes
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
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How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.
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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
