Robin Gibb Quotes
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
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Many Italians suspect that this is our last chance for change.
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time?It doth; but actions are our epochs: mineHave made my days and nights imperishableEndless, and all alike, as sands on the shoreInnumerable atoms; and one desertBarren and cold, on which the wild waves break,But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.
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I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
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I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.
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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.
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I hope people listen to black people more. You'd be surprised how little people listen to black people when it comes to racial issues. It's weird.
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I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.
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When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.
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I have always been a hard worker. I had to make some adjustments to find a way to make my delivery crisper and more repeatable.
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I think when you wear so many hats, be it of a mom or a working woman, you need to feel good and look good as well.
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Val IT provides well-researched guidance that helps organizations select investments with the potential to generate the highest returns.
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When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
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God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
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During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.
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Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.
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I think what everyone can do is start creating spaces and forums, talk to peers, friends and family, and start deconstructing these things we take for granted, unpack these old systems, in order to understand ourselves more deeply, to understand why we do the things we do and how our privileges affect other people's lack of privilege.
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I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.
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Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.
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I've always been naturally thin.
