Mark Roberts Quotes
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.
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John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.
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We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.
