Brian L. Roberts Quotes
It's a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
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I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
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Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.
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The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.
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It's a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.
