Robbie Robertson Quotes

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

Robbie Robertson

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I love challenges.

Max Baucus

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I really love doing period pieces. I don't feel I've gotten a chance yet in my career to explore it as much as I'd like to. So I'll constantly look for opportunities to play in those worlds and hopefully be able to express those characters as well someday.

Stana Katic

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We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

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If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.

Rupert Murdoch

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If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.

Mike Pence

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When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

Judith Hill

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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'

Bob Brown

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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

Atifete Jahjaga

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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Audre Lorde

FearWomenRespectSilenceSpeakUs

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Pope Francis

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Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Peter Farrelly

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