Gene Robinson Quotes
And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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I have a pretty friendly professional working relationship with Mr. Pai, and I told him not to walk down too much of a partisan path. I didn't think it would be good in terms of policy. And I didn't think it would be good in terms of the FCC's ability to solve other problems.
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
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People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
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I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.
