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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Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
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Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself; I have doubts.
