Brian L. Roberts Quotes
I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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Excellence always sells.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
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It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.
