Rich Robinson Quotes
It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
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My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.
