Cynthia Robinson Quotes
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The world needs some help.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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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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on global warming There's a group of people who, a little while ago, were saying, 'It's not happening.' That same group of people are now saying, 'Alright, it is happening, but it's not our fault.' That's a very dodgy position to be in. That's like saying, 'I'm not having an affair, and, anyway, she seduced me'.
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You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
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John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.
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Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
