John Roos Quotes
Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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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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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
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I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
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Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
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Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
