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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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
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I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun.
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Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!
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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.
