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• I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Men, Yards

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• Robin Roberts - what a trailblazer she has been in sports TV! One of the best in TV.

  Megan Alexander

  Sports, Tvs, Trailblazers

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

  Paul Mooney

  Technique, Being Funny

  "Funny Paul Mooney was born a comic". Interview with Gregory Lewis, www.sfgate.com. October 6, 1995.

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• I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.

  Peter Robinson

  Writing, Years, Fiction

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

  Harold Ramis

  Growing Up, Three, Saws

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Doors, Years, Realize Things

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• I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, People

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

  Jonas Armstrong

  Hero, Hands, Calling The Shots

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

  Richard Armitage

  Children, Trying, Adults

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• I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

  Stephen Lang

  Tv Shows, Rama, Tvs

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• A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd.

  Hannibal

  Thinking, Laughing, Heaven

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• I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

  Charles Keating, Jr.

  Speech, Littles, Scene

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• There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

  Claude Rains

  Death Sentence, Sentences

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• I'm fascinated by the new iPhone. I bought it and kept trying to use it in France. "Siri, what is a good restaurant?" (In a robotic voice.) "I'm sorry, Robin. I can't give locations in France." "Why, Siri?" "I don't know." It's like she was upset with the French or something. "They seem to have an attitude I can't understand. Should I look for Germans, Robin?"

  Robin Williams

  Sorry, Attitude, Iphone

  Source: www.today.com

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• I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do. Mum said I couldnt be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, OK, then, I want to be an actor.

  Darren Criss

  Voice, Guy, Actors

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• If I shouldn't be alive
  When the Robins come,
  Give the one in Red Cravat,
  A Memorial crumb.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Giving, Memorial

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

  Dan Quayle

  Superhero, Politics, Want

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• I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

  David Letterman

  Central Park, Sparrows, Today

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• He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

  John Prescott

  Government, British Politics, Made

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• Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.

  William J. Murray

  Atheist, Hair, Organization

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• The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.

  William Allingham

  Winter, Autumn, Apples

  William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”, p.169

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• I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Tickets, Needs

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• Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

  Julie Kagawa

  Noble, Pranks, Mischief

  Julie Kagawa (2012). “Iron's Prophecy”, p.31, Harlequin

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• Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Men, White

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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