Alexandra Robbins Quotes
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.
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Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.
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I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.
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It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.
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It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.
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Chance favors only those who court her.
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Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
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There are no indisputable truths.
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He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
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The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.
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The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.
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To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
