Robert Shaw Quotes

• The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

  Robert Shaw

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

  Robert Shaw

  Voice, World

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• You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

  Robert Shaw

  Pieces, Lasts, Hearing

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• Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

  Robert Shaw

  Three, Lasts, Seconds

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

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• You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

  Robert Shaw

  Metaphor, Perceive

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• I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

  Robert Shaw

  Character, Men, Actors

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• Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

  Robert Shaw

  Soul, Agents, Satan

  Robert Shaw (1845). “An Exposition of the Confession of Faith of the Westminster Assembly of Divines”, p.273

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• In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

  Robert Shaw

  May, Vengeance, Lord

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• My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

  Robert Shaw

  School, Kids, Responsibility

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• There's no future in being poor.

  Robert Shaw

  Poor

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• I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

  Robert Shaw

  Writing, Thinking, Want Something

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