#self

I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true. ↗

— Ann Robinson

#always #fool #guess #i #kid

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

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#even #gives #hear #i #might

Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#myself #originally #songs #writing

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. ↗

— Sugar Ray Robinson

#believe in yourself #champ #else #will #you

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#bringing #close #did #doing #i

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#distractions #eating #fine #flavor #food

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#apprenticeship #aspirations #becoming #began #cooking

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#calling #feel #himself #i #important