Charles Seymour Robinson Quotes
When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
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It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
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You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.
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I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.
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Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.
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I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
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I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.
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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
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I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.
