Cynthia Robinson Quotes
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The world needs some help.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I was born free.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.
Colson Whitehead -
My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.
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Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.
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Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
