Jake Roberts Quotes

Every moment is an experience.

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• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Years
  • Doing

• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Dark

• My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Hat
  • Off

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Angel

• But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Earth
  • Living
  • Face

• I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • People
  • Lucky
  • Weight

• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Security

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Stand

• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Progress

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Artist

• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Fear
  • Style
  • Said

• Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Science

• In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Death

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Life
  • Why
  • Experience

• Every moment is an experience.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • Experience