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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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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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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I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.
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Anybody who has traveled with a significant other before knows it's tough.
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I can only envision and feel the pain of these animals being stuck in a tiny aquarium. Normally, orcas swim 100 miles a day. They're free in the ocean.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.
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The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.
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My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
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