Brian L. Roberts Quotes

Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?

Brian L. Roberts

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Project
  • Budget
  • Box

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• I'm a natural blonde!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Natural
  • Blonde

• When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Music
  • Friends

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Time
  • Greed

• I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Change
  • Myself
  • Body

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Science
  • Independent
  • Review

• We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Live
  • America
  • Society

• Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.

  

  Mabel Cheung
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• Margaret Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

  

  Caryl Churchill
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Policy

• Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• What in the world would we do without our libraries?

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • World
  • Libraries

• Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?

  

  Brian L. Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Knowledge