Jerry Robinson Quotes
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
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Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.
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The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.
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The plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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What is crucial is there be laws.
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There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
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Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper.
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I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.
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I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
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We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
