John Robinson Quotes
With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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It is my philosophy that one should not excel in only one thing but try to strike a balance between different things.
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Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
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I say that a God who would come between two who have been to each other what we have been, is not one I would heed.
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One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.
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My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.
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With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
