Anthony Robbins Quotes
Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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My mom and I are very close.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.
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I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?
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'But the implication of the psalm, is it not, is that we are sheep and that God is our shepherd? Why else would He put us in a pasture and protect us with a staff? But what I have never fully understood is why the shepherd blames the sheep when they become ill.'
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.
