Rich Robinson Quotes
I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.
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Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
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You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.
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People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it's still OK. Really?
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I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.
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I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.
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Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
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Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?
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If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.
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I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
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I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.
