Robin Gibb Quotes
If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong – it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap - as measured by the pay - that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.
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The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong – it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
