Phoebe Robinson Quotes

I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.

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• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • Political
  • Education

• My first movie was totally improvised.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movie
  • First
  • Totally

• I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Children
  • Love

• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Distance

• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• No actor wants to play to an empty house.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • House
  • Play
  • Actor

• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Winning
  • Moment

• We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Question
  • Honor

• I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Why
  • Free
  • Fashion

• My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Quality

• Putin is willing to poison bodies in the free world, not only minds. Why would he do this? Why would he call attention to his murderous ways now? Well, I’ll turn that around and ask instead, why wouldn’t he? Dictators don’t ask 'Why,' they ask 'Why not?'

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Why
  • Free

• The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

  

  Iris Murdoch

• Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall standHenceforward in thy shadow.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Shadow

• Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumqueut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credantsubdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.

  

  Lucretius

• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• Come ne l'alto mar legno talora,Che da duo venti sia percosso e vinto,Ch'ora uno inanzi l'ha mandato, ed oraUn altro al primo termine respinto,E l'han girato da poppa e da prora.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Writing

• True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

  

  William Penn
  • World
  • Men
  • Creation

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.

  

  Phoebe Robinson