Bruce Robinson Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
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We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.
