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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I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.
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Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
