Phoebe Robinson Quotes
The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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I don't like looking outrageous.
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
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Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
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You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
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Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?
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The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.
