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Robert Osborne Quotes

There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1932 - March 6, 2017

Topics

Life Enjoy Life Time Enjoy Choose

I simply loved education. I mean, I always loved acting as well. It really was a major passion for me, but one I felt I could only fully explore once I'd completed my degree.

Education Passion Me Loved Acting

I think I've seen the first 'RoboCop' like 15 or 20 times. I'm like a kid that way.

Think Way First Kid Seen Like

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

Girl Gift Think Thinking Idiot You

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

Movies More Eat Up Got Oxygen

The more you're playing, the more weeks you're going, the more you're into it, the more everything is flowing together.

Together You More Everything Going

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

Game Early Lucky Two Teammate Just

I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.

You Down Place Worst Minnesota Idea

It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Mother Parent She Theory Her Been

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

Money Value Corruption Fraud Cruelty

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Change Now Hard Imagine Dramatic

I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.

Father Today Teacher I Am Teachers

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

Sacrifice Fight War Win Consequences

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