John Roberts Quotes
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.
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Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.
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Senator Stanton? The man who’s sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?
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Haven't seen any of the movies in which Rekha aped me. I think it is highly improbable that a lady should ape me. If it is so, then all I can say is that i am terribly flattered.
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I actually think it doesn't even matter what age you are or what sex - though that does play into it sometimes - you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.
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'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written.
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I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
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Rome was not built in one day.
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You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.
