Craig Robinson Quotes
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.
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I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
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There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
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Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
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Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She's somebody I've always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
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The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
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People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
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I'm Mr. Grits. One of the non-perishables.
