John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
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Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
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I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
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When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.
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There's no way I'll back down, like a goddamn coward. I can't, how would I look? As a man bowing to his knees? Like the mad cow disease, let somebody lash out at me, and not lash back out at him.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
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I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
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I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
