Bruce Robinson Quotes
If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
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I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.
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Whatever you learn will never go waste. It will be beneficial for me in future.
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If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
