John Buchanan Robinson Quotes

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

John Buchanan Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 23, 1846 - January 28, 1933

Topics

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I'm really good at pretending.

Sophie McShera

GoodPretendingReally

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

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I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

Tom Lehrer

TemperamentReallyPerformer

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

Rufus Sewell

MyselfBeginningPeopleMeBetter

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

Ross Butler

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'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

Jools Holland

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I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

Colin Firth

MeFaceBetterLookKindWorse

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

Richard O'Brien

WorkAgainstBeenRockyHaving

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Kenneth G. Wilson

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We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.

Janet Mock

ComplicatedOthersExperiencesMust

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

Jamie Cullum

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Horace

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