Anthony Robbins Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.
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I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.
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You can't influence somebody when you're judging them.
