Phoebe Robinson Quotes

I am a workaholic - my family will agree with that.

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• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Half

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• 'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Like
  • Never

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Party
  • Investment

• I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Food
  • Healthy

• One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• What I want to do in life is just be a respectful man and just take care of my children and guide my family in the right direction. I'm not looking to be a chairperson, I'm not looking to be ambassador or anything in that capacity.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Ambassador

• I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Family
  • Summer
  • Paper

• Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Control
  • Body
  • Yoga

• I am a workaholic - my family will agree with that.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Family