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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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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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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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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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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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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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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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.
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It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
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When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.
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I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.
