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Frederick William Robertson Quotes

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Frederick William Robertson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: english
Birth: February 3, 1816 - August 15, 1853

Topics

Life Education Child Universe Only

We'll go on vacation, but we don't really care to go see Rome or anything. We just want to play dominoes. We like the fact that we can say, 'Oh, we went to Rome.' 'Well, what'd you do in Rome?' 'Played dominoes'.

Vacation Care You Play Want Rome

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Humor Black Things Stories Those

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Words Think Filmmaking Prove Point

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Michael Crichton

Done Accept Own Things Hardest Your

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

People Group Oppression Something

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

Roland Emmerich

People Think Better Movies Hollywood

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

Think Tradition Spread Our I Think

My life is scattered and busy. I think of my home as a resort. When I step through the door, I feel relaxed. I almost feel like I've taken a vacation.

Life Home Vacation Step Door Busy

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Personality Man Problems Situation

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

Childhood Gun Think Out Shooting

Kids called me a cow and mooed at me.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

Change People Think You Said Minds

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