Sylvia (Sylvia Robinson) Quotes

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

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• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Emotional

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Free
  • Survive
  • Questioning

• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Single

• Everyone has class, one class or another.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Everyone
  • Class
  • Another

• My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Father
  • Year
  • Congress

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.

  

  James Wolk
  • Up
  • Work

• If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Smart

• When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Mercy

• Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • People
  • Good

• Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Game

• You never know what's going to happen. It's kind of nice to limit your expectations so when something clicks, you go, 'Hey, that's nice. Thank you.'

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Nice

• Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • Life
  • World
  • Champagne

• I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Work
  • Truth
  • True

• Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

  

  S. Parkes
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Heaven

• The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Different
  • Important
  • High

• I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

  

  Sylvia
  • Different
  • New
  • Copy