Robbie Robertson Quotes
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
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I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
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I'm a spiritual person.
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
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We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.
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People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
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In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.
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The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
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Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.
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I have today decided that I will not order the extradition of Senator Pinochet to Spain. I have also decided not to ... proceed in respect of the extradition requests from Switzerland, Belgium and France.
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“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
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When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
