Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I moved from New York to El Paso meant that writing turned into singing. I'd sing all these songs, and they'd make me feel better. Songs that crafted the way my life was going to go.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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Your own inner capabilities and potentials are more varied and powerful than you realize. The purpose of this book is to enable you to recognize and use them in daily life. You use them now, but in a subdued and inefficient manner. They work in spite of you.
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My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I moved from New York to El Paso meant that writing turned into singing. I'd sing all these songs, and they'd make me feel better. Songs that crafted the way my life was going to go.
