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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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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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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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
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United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
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People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean energy where we can.
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We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.
