Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
I'm still proud of who I am, of my youth, and I feel like now, as individuals, we begin to realise that we can change the future. We all have to participate.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
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I'm still proud of who I am, of my youth, and I feel like now, as individuals, we begin to realise that we can change the future. We all have to participate.
