Chris Robinson Quotes

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

Chris Robinson The Black Crowes

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Talking
  • Fake

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Together
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Always
  • Connection

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Like
  • Always
  • Craftsmanship

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Gay

• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Wind
  • Smoke

• One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Girl

• I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Free
  • Action

• If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

  

  Ellen Swallow Richards
  • Water
  • Criticism

• Your levels of cholesterol are primarily dependent on your own body's production rather than the result of eating animal fats. Moreover, some forms of cholesterol are heart healthy.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Cholesterol
  • Body's production
  • Heart healthy

• They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Promise
  • Witch

• I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

  

  J. California Cooper
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Music
  • Water
  • Rock