Jane Roberts Quotes

Looking back now, it's easy to see that I had no models for the socially accepted conventional female role, which was certainly a blessing.

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• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Wise

• Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Think
  • Look
  • View

• By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Live
  • High
  • Society

• I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Life
  • Best
  • Child

• The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

  

  Nadar
  • Know
  • Best
  • Portrait

• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Live
  • Rise

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Security
  • Big
  • Entourage

• Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Me
  • Die
  • Wine

• I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • School
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• I've always been extremely physical.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Always
  • Been
  • Physical

• I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live

• If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Kind
  • Study
  • Persons

• Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

  

  Luke Ford
  • People
  • Home
  • Business

• Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

  

  Jay Cutler

• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Consequences
  • Probability

• Looking back now, it's easy to see that I had no models for the socially accepted conventional female role, which was certainly a blessing.

  

  Jane Roberts