Mark Roberts Quotes
I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.
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I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
