John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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I think that women like to use different parts of their brain and their hands. And I think that cooking allows you to do that.
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When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
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During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.
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In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
