Alexandra Robbins Quotes

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Alexandra Robbins

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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Work
  • Short
  • Tall

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Movies

• With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Peace
  • Play
  • Development

• Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Society
  • Man
  • Political

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Believe
  • Doing
  • Hunger

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Different
  • Children

• I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Great
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Way
  • Stories

• The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Country
  • Running

• Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Bad
  • Everyday
  • Word

• I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Game
  • Unique

• Say something personal, not from a publicist.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Something
  • Say
  • Personal

• Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• Judiciary is where my passion is.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Passion
  • Where
  • Judiciary

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Always
  • See
  • Luxury

• Russians – people, as a rule, are deep, friendly, often prone to melancholy.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • People
  • Melancholy
  • Russians

• Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

  

  Alexandra Robbins
  • Rules
  • Conformity
  • Copout