Robin Trower Quotes
It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
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Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.
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If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
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I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.
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It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
