John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
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To be is to do.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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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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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.
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Misery Loves Company. SPIN Magazine (March 1993).
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All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'
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I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
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Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
