John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
Quotes to Explore
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
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Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
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A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.
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I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
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However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
