Bill Robinson Quotes
What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.
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I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.
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Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
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What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.
