Brian L. Roberts Quotes

I think Jay Leno is fantastic.

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• I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Right
  • Coffee
  • Ingredients

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Friends
  • Past
  • Mood

• Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Day
  • First
  • Before

• Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • History
  • Romantic

• 100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Man
  • Married
  • Partner

• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Player

• Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

  

  Zendaya
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Vision

• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trying
  • Democracy
  • Problems

• I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Interested
  • Wants

• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fight

• Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Abuse
  • Taxation

• Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Judgment

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Child
  • Left
  • Within

• It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Becoming a monster sometimes isn't a choice that you have. We're all that; we're all 'the other' in one way or another.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Monster

• I'm the most private person.

  

  Ashley Olsen

• For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Words
  • Advantage
  • Scripture

• For all creative people, that's sort of everyone's journey. You feel something inside, and it takes a while to figure out what that looks like and what your voice is.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • People
  • Journey

• I think Jay Leno is fantastic.

  

  Brian L. Roberts