The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.


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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.
ROBIN THICKE
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may ...
ROBIN MORGAN
If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
ROBIN WRIGHT
Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
ROBIN WRIGHT
You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I'm tired of biting my tongue.
ROBIN WRIGHT
People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they ...
ROBIN WRIGHT
You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary ...
ROBIN WRIGHT
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it ...
ROBIN WRIGHT
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And h...
ROBIN WRIGHT
Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are i...
ROBIN WRIGHT
Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.
ROBIN WRIGHT
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the s...
ROBIN WRIGHT
If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.
ROBIN WRIGHT
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variati...
ROBIN WRIGHT
I learned about men from my son.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.
ROBIN WRIGHT
A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're...
ROBIN WRIGHT
I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.
ROBIN WRIGHT
If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in l...
ROBIN WILLIAMS
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I&#...
ROBIN MCLEAVY
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
ROBIN MORGAN
Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before canc...
ROBIN ROBERTS
Never pick up a friend by seeing the volume of wealth, power, followers, money or degree rather pick...
LORD ROBIN
Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ign...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE
He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON
Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON
Sense is nonsense to a fool.
ROBIN ROBERTSON
What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the r...
ROBIN ROBERTSON
The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of...
ROBIN HOBB
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives ...
ROBIN MORGAN
He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it ha...
ROBIN HOBB
I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try ...
ROBIN QUIVERS
Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the w...
ROBIN HOBB