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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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
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Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.
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Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
