Martha Roby Quotes
We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
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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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I think there's an innocence to me.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
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When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
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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.
