John Robinson Quotes
Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.
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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
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Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.
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Good work is good work wherever it is.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
