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.

Robbie Robertson

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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.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• 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.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• Math is one of my favorite subjects.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Math
  • Favorite
  • Subjects

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • She

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Diplo
  • Crazy
  • Dark

• I'm a spiritual person.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Spiritual

• Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

  

  Andrew Mellon
  • Money

• We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  David Mitchell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Japanese

• 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.

  

  Jim Hunt
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Depression

• 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.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• 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.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People

• It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Together
  • Stop

• Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • Innocent
  • Crime
  • Suspects

• So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Future

• The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Boredom

• One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

  

  Steven Strogatz
  • Patterns
  • Mathematical
  • Hidden

• 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.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Thinking
  • Personal
  • Younger