Bruce Robinson Quotes
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
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Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
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I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.
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Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!
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It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was so nervous. But as I got more experienced, I had to choose between fight and flight - and I've fought every time.
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With confidence, I think anyone can get a dress and make it their own. I don't think you should have it off the runway and wear it like they want you to wear it. You know, with their hair and makeup - their woman. I just think it's boring. You have to make it your own. That's what fashion is all about.
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I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.
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You learn more doing than doing training.
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Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions. Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.
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The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.
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For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'
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Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
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I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafes in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.
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By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
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I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
