Martha Roby Quotes
The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Actors don't have real value.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm a little bit out of touch, and I didn't know who Marion Cotillard was.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry. And instead of responding in earnest to the health crisis, they've spent the past 30 years getting people to eat more. This is the story of how we ended up doing just that.
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The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.
