John Buchanan Robinson Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
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Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
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Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
