Phoebe Robinson Quotes
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
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As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.
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It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils;In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.
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Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.
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A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could entertain a brick wall.
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People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
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I try to read 20 books a year.
