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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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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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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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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I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.
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It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.
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I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
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I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
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But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,Now thou art gone and never must return!
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
