Robert Hilburn Quotes

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleQuestionFirstAlwaysYour

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.

John Hull

FatProblemImportantProbability

On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women, like demanding equal pay for equal work, pushing to raise our minimum wage, and promoting the idea of paid family leave.

Ann Callis

WorkFamilyWomenImportantPay

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

Rumaan Alam

SeriousBurdenDifferenceEngage

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

Matisyahu

WorkMenWiseStoryInspireBirth

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Louie Schwartzberg

TechnologyScienceArtCuriositySee

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Jonathan Swift

FoolKissWineDrinkNoseKnew

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

Diane Arbus

GoNeverWhereBeenFavouriteThing

An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.

Donald Faison

WorkWashingtonAwesomeHappenGet

I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

Christopher Abbott

HomeCollegeWineLivedHereOdd

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.

Chris Stapleton

DoingEasyCountryTryWriteWell

I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution... Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.

Ariel Sharon

LeaderSacrificeMistakeWorldFree

Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'

Ashley Tisdale

EatingFeelYouGuiltySayWant

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