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In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.


Edward G. Robinson

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GENE ROBINSON My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She...
NATE ROBINSON When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told...
NATE ROBINSON We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking...
NATE ROBINSON I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.
NATE ROBINSON I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
NATE ROBINSON I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
NATE ROBINSON Fans are awesome.
NATE ROBINSON The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.
NATE ROBINSON I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for...
NATE ROBINSON Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th...
NATE ROBINSON I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
NATE ROBINSON I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste...
NATE ROBINSON As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them ...
NATE ROBINSON Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for...
NATE ROBINSON There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do tha...
NATE ROBINSON Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
NATE ROBINSON I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every tim...
NATE ROBINSON My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high sc...
NATE ROBINSON Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money alway...
NATE ROBINSON I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
NATE ROBINSON I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free ...
NATE ROBINSON You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ...
NATE ROBINSON That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that eve...
SMOKEY ROBINSON I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough mon...
JACKIE ROBINSON My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly wo...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Ame...
JACKIE ROBINSON The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies...
EDEN ROBINSON The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles ...
EDEN ROBINSON The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our commun...
EDEN ROBINSON I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coasta...
EDEN ROBINSON The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, to...
EDEN ROBINSON Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
EDEN ROBINSON The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nur...
EDEN ROBINSON A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy...
EDEN ROBINSON I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or a...
JACKIE ROBINSON Co-ops are one of the few affordable housing options for students that want life close to campus.
ALAN ROBINSON Blood is not all that important. It's what you have in your heart and how you carry it.
ALAN ROBINSON I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in...
ALAN ROBINSON We had about 20 people and cooked two turkeys.
ALAN ROBINSON