Cynthia Robinson Quotes
I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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I don't really get starstruck much.
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...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.
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Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
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I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.
