Alan Robinson Quotes
Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.
Quotes to Explore
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.
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Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.
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As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
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[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.
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Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.
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I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?
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Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots or something like that. There are no physicists in mainstream 'Physics.' From Newton to Einstein to Hawking, they are all just mathematicians as far as Science and Physics are concerned.
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Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.
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Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.
