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Apollo Robbins Quotes

When I was around 13 or 14, and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name Apollo on it. And I'd walk around with it. People would say, 'Hey, there's that Apollo kid.' That's where the name generated from.

Apollo Robbins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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Nationality: american

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Walk School People Name Say Kid

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

John Buchan

Think Push You Back Wall Earth

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

Jennifer Egan

Writing America You Fast Know Move

I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.

John Fusco

Place Up Where Indians Unlikely

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Andre Leon Talley

Childhood Door Sister Kitchen Orange

Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.

Max Aaron

Good Not Good Enough Enough You Try

The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.

Jeff Garlin

Me Saying Nothing Listen Audience

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Exercise Result Reason Own Call

I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy.

Jason Mraz

Kind T-Shirt Always Jeans Guy Been

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Diego Rivera

Woman Body She Through Sexuality

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Douglas Coupland

Failure Power Best Sometimes

In focusing towards the outer world, we celebs forget to focus on our inner well-being. We don't lead perfect lives, and only when we learn to have peace with our family members can we have peace in life.

Shilpa Shetty

Life Family Focus Peace World Learn

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

Shay Mitchell

Water Quality Skin New Kind Air