Matt Roper Quotes
Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?Matt Roper
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
B. F. Skinner -
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
E. L. Doctorow -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz -
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens -
In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
Hamish Bowles
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole -
I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
Nancy Reagan -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom -
Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
Valentina Matviyenko -
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Raghuram Rajan -
If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
Zac Efron
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
Tariq Ramadan -
When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
Barry Bonds -
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
Rand Paul -
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
Lady Gaga -
When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
Kate Bush
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
Larry Page -
It's kind of crazy what I can do and what I can't do. It's simple things like rice and quinoa or salads, honestly, that I'm not great at. But I can make an osso buco that takes six hours.
Chrissy Teigen -
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
Ian Schrager -
You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
Karen Finerman -
The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.
Jasmine Guy -
Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?
Matt Roper