Cynthia Robinson Quotes

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

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• Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Saying

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Song
  • Moments
  • Learn

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Mind
  • First
  • Year

• I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Feeling
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Value

• Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Painter
  • Between
  • Abstract

• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Music
  • Live
  • Enough

• A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Women
  • Society
  • Care

• Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Miss
  • Less
  • Damn

• I try to space the floor and use my athletic ability to get to the rim... I try to get the best of both worlds.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Space
  • Best
  • Try

• It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Power
  • Father

• Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Power

• Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Thanks

• When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Family

• I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Belief
  • Republican

• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Up
  • Music
  • Today

• Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

  

  Tacitus
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Crime

• Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Culture
  • Material
  • Impressed

• If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

  

  Cynthia Robinson