Robert Hilburn Quotes

When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's your favorite color - I didn't know.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1939

Topics

ColorYouArtistBornKnowAsk

There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.

John Gourley

ManMeTexasPersonSeriousDetroit

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

John Harvey Kellogg

WorkMenYouCannotWho

I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.

John Legend

KnowSingerGetWhoWantsHow

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

John McCain

ServicePurposeAmericaParticipation

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

John McAfee

Public DomainYouNeverLimitRoot

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.

John Hickenlooper

DayRestaurantBetterFirstDenver

I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.

Angus T. Jones

LookingBibleReadingChurchLook

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

Simon Sinek

TimeFlyingDownWhyUnderstand

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.

Ron Wyden

SpecialReasonSameLegislative

I would wear sunglasses all the time if it wasn't looked down upon in certain situations. I always thought I'd be someone who wore sunglasses like Roy Orbison.

LP

TimeSunglassesThoughtSomeoneDown

Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

Johnny Vegas

YourselfYouBackFindLostAirport

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Dev Hynes

FunnyPeopleMeThinkYouTrue

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