Frank Robinson Quotes

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Frank Robinson

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Always
  • Photographer
  • Vogue

• One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Values

• Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Goals
  • Sense
  • Places

• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Band

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth
  • Very
  • Tell

• I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Heart
  • Wife
  • Anger

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Organization

• On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Up
  • Day
  • Myself

• I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Want
  • Travel
  • Dog

• You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Words
  • Moment

• A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Trying

• I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • People
  • Good
  • Dark

• I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Night

• [Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

  

  William Kristol
  • People
  • Political
  • Attention

• I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Life
  • High

• I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

  

  Frank Robinson