Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
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When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.
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I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.
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The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
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Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.
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When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.
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These little things are very significant.
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I love the passion you go through while you're creating.
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I grew up playing every sport.
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George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
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I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered.
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When all is said and done, science is about things and theology is about words. Things behave in the same way everywhere, but words do not. ... Theology works in one culture alone. If you have not grown up in Polkinghorne's culture, where words such as 'incarnation' and 'trinity' have a profound meaning, you cannot share his vision.
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
