Martha Roby Quotes
Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.
Quotes to Explore
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
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We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.
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Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.
