Robert W. Service Quotes
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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I train to be the champion.
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In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.
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What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.
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Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
