Brian L. Roberts Quotes
If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
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I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.
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'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
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Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.
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Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.
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If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.
