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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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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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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I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.
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As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films.
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We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
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I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard, I want my work to do the talking for me.
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I do believe that Instagram has put a stake in the ground and we're growing more quickly than anyone. Is there something in there we could do to make it a multi-billion dollar business? I think we can figure out something along the way.
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The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
