Mark Roberts Quotes
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
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Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
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I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.
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Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, Jamaica Labour Party and People's National Party, and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.
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Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.
