Ed Robertson Quotes
I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.
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I'm not going to say I'm not ready for a fighter like Canelo Alvarez.
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I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.
