John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
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In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.
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One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to be OK.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
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When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
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I'm more thoughtful and aware of how my body feels. I've learned the difference of what is just sore from a hard workout or what's sore from a possible injury.
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If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.
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Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
