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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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.
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Life is not lived in hours, days, or years, but in moments.
