Brian L. Roberts Quotes
We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
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On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.
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'System' is the concept that refers both to a complex of interdependencies between parts, components, and processes, that involves discernible regularities of relationships, and to a similar type of interdependency between such a complex and its surrounding environment.
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Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.
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I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.
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We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.
