#lit

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#create #me #musician #novelty #now

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in. ↗

— Donny Robinson

#become #bike #case #difficult #i

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#always #another #call #candidates #careful

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#black #black music #could #did #enjoy

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#different perspective #doing #fiction #future #little

I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restaurant in Moscow for the same reason. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#available #because #doing #example #for example

Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#bed #bit #course #done #earlier

We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food! ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#chefs #chemical #food #learn #makeup

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? ↗

— Mo Rocca

#books #digital #even #matter #media