Ryan Robbins Quotes
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
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Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
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My aim is to create the perfect dress!
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As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.
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Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
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Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.
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People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.
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I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.
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I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.
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Life is not lived in hours, days, or years, but in moments.
