Jane Roberts Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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What we can control is our readiness.
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I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.
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For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.
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We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side - even if you vehemently disagree.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.
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There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
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Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.
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My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
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