Martha Roby Quotes
We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
