Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Quotes
Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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I hate downtime.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the 'things' of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. 'We give our children guns and computer games,' Wendy said. 'They gave their children the land.'
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
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The way God squandered Himself had always hurt her; and annoyed her too. The sky full of wings and only the shepherds awake. That golden voice speaking and only a few fishermen there to hear; and perhaps some of the words He spoke carried away on the wind or lost in the sound of the waves lapping against the side of the boat. A thousand blossoms shimmering over the orchard, each a world of wonder all to itself, and then the whole thing blown away on a southwest gale as though the delicate little worlds were of no value at all. Well, of all the spendthrifts, she would think and then pull herself up. It was not for her to criticize the ways of Almighty God; if He liked to go to all that trouble over the snowflakes, millions and millions of them, their intricate patterns too small to be seen by human eyes, and melting as soon as made, that was His affair and not hers. All she could do about it was to catch in her window, and save from entire waste, as much of the squandered beauty as she could.
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Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.
