Bryan Robson Quotes
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I have a pig valve.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.
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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
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Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.
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Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
