Edward G. Robinson Quotes
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.
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I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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I have so many gay friends that I love.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
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It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
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Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
