Apollo Robbins Quotes
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is a Jewish culture, a Jewish religion, but there is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. The Jews were a component basically of two civilizations. In the Western world, we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition and you talk about the Judeo-Islamic tradition because there were large and important Jewish communities living in the lands of Islam.
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I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.
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I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
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I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
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Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
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Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself; I have doubts.
