Robin Thicke Quotes

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

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• A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fall

• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Leader
  • Disney
  • Commercial

• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • English
  • Minds
  • Scottish

• Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Support
  • Building
  • Israel

• I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • England
  • Go
  • Joke

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Young

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • History
  • Study
  • Questions

• I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Great
  • Truth

• I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Know
  • Sales

• For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Team

• From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • God

• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• If I wear a suit, as I generally do in the business world, it's supposed to mean I'm retreating from competition with the bunnies. If I wear a very glamorous romantic dress, as I'm very likely to do if I'm going out in the evening, then I'm supposed to be competing with the bunnies.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • World
  • Business
  • Competition

• Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

  

  James Joyce

• My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Independent

• I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

  

  Robin Thicke
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  • Possible
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