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Robert Redford Quotes

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

Robert Redford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1936

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Great Me World Looking Think You

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

Anita Roddick

Small Think Impact You Bed Try

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

John W. Gardner

Respect Government Feel Responsible

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin

Hands Prevention Crime Punishment

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

Ron Perlman

Professional Actor Years Been Almost

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

Masayoshi Son

Smile People Robots Aim Develop Our

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Dick Durbin

Death Purpose Effort You Know Talk

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

David Steinberg

Comedy Underrated Most Part Silences

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

Peter O'Toole

Light Hate Weather Stand

My problems were not what ended Creed.

Scott Stapp

Problems Creed Were Ended

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

Tina Brown

Enough Credit You Wall Moral Know

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Richard Powers

Life Good Live Technology Science

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

Pain Way Always Pleasure