Marilynne Robinson Quotes

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
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  • City
  • Fighting

• I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

  

  Olivia Colman
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  • Think
  • Baby

• I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

  

  Edie Campbell
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  • Hilarious
  • Jacket

• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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  • Place
  • Colombia

• I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

  

  Mae Whitman
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  • Myself
  • Brain

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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  • American
  • History

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
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  • Remember
  • Saying

• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
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  • You
  • Worry

• You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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  • Job
  • Education

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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  • Work
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• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
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  • Music
  • Fans

• When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • Together
  • Team

• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
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  • Surfing
  • Kiteboarding

• It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Happy
  • Movies
  • Taught

• I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

  

  Harriet Harman
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  • Different
  • Thought

• L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
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  • Home
  • Friends

• I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing.

  

  Chris Kattan

• My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

  

  Douglas Preston
  • Work
  • Home
  • Job

• One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

  

  Francisco Franco
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• My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
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