Melanie Roach Quotes
I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
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I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.
